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 ...

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this balance. A new study reports that 34 percent of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) ...

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 ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

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 ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Continue reading to discover the animals that call the polar regions home. Lepus arcticus, commonly the arctic hare, is native to the most northern regions of North America. They are found principally ...

Greenland, the world's largest island, offers a pristine Arctic paradise with dramatic landscapes and unique wildlife such as ...

THE most brutal race series in the world sees athletes avoid being eaten alive and freezing to death if they stop running.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...