The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream ...

Polar bears evolved during a time when the North and South poles were not connected by ice or land, so they stayed at the North Pole. A wildlife photographer recently captured images of polar bears ...

Luxury cruise line Ponant is making it easier to travel to the ends of the Earth with a shorter voyage that brings travelers all the way to the geographic North Pole. The roundtrip journey will take ...

The research ship Polarstern spent two months in the ice of the Arctic this summer. What they found could be evidence of an ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe. A major ...

One of the most remote parts of the world where the sun never sets can now be experienced in luxury. Luxury cruise line Ponant is making it easier to travel to the ends of the Earth with a shorter ...