In his new book, 'Perseverance', Stephan Kesting reveals how he survived a six-week solo trip in the subarctic, and what he ...

What’s it like to spend two days on a train to the Arctic Circle? The VIA Rail Winnipeg–Churchill route takes passengers through some of the most extreme landscapes in North America, ending in ...

Life-threatening cold air will continue to surge across the central United States through midweek and build into the East into the end of this week before it begins to ease up, AccuWeather ...

The world’s most northernmost town Longyearbyen is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Every winter, its 2000-strong population experiences the Polar Night, when everything is ...

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners from forced labor camps built railroad tracks in one of the most inhospitable regions of ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

The term “polar vortex” usually refers to the gigantic circular upper air weather pattern in the Arctic region. It is a ...

Giant cyclones of snow and ice are breaking up thin ice in the Arctic, leading to rapid ice loss events, and it’s happening more now than ever before. A scientist at OU described an unusually powerful ...

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison. Even ...

The biggest batch of record-setting cold temperatures are likely to hit early Thursday and Friday, Orrison said. But North Dakota already felt more like the North Pole on Tuesday as Bismarck hit minus ...