While on a photography assignment in Norway, the crew made a crucial decision while sailing on an ice pack. The result was an ...

A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive ...

Visiting Svalbard in June also allows travelers to avoid the busier month of July, which marks the height of the Svalbard ...

The continued melting of the Arctic’s polar ice pack is transforming this once forbidding part of the Earth into a new and hotly contested region. Climate change is opening up new avenues for global ...

Over the first three weeks of August, the average temperature in Fargo was nearly 4 degrees below average. One of the principal reasons for that change in the weather pattern was the development of a ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...

A study by scientists in five countries shows that the retreat of the Arctic ice pack is at its worst in thousands of years and likely isn't the result of normal natural ebb and flow, reports Canwest ...

Sail to the North Pole in style aboard Le Commandant Charcot, currently the world’s only passenger vessel able to reach the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arctic ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists said on ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of ...