For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

A modern expedition follows the path of Hubert Wilkins, who set out for the North Pole in 1931 in a decrepit WW1 submarine.

He was recently part of a 12-person team that was the first to ever drive wheeled vehicles to the North Pole as part of a ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Green Valley's Molly Sheridan completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days this past February. That included ...

The mass of extremely warm air threw the freezing polar vortex out of balance, shoving it off its North Pole axis so forcefully that it in effect split in two, as if growing a pair of legs: one ...

That’s why it took scientists by surprise when dozens of lightning strikes were detected within 300 nautical miles of the North Pole this past weekend. In fact, it was so unusual that it was ...

Saints legend Jimmy Graham, NOLA couple John & Hannah Huppi set to row across Arctic Ocean ...

In a world that so often encourages women to play it safe, a young Kuwaiti woman named Yasmeen Almane dared to do the un ...

Sled dogs resting at the sea ice edge off Ittoqqortoormiit, Eastern Greenland. A new study done in Greenland has found oceans currents may be carrying legacy mercury to the Arctic. (Olivier Morin ...

Eight hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the research vessel Kronprins Haakon drifts quietly through a thick pack of ice floes. The sky and sea are bathed in purple morning light as ...