Students can learn more about polar bears with this comprehensive daily lesson plan, printables, worksheets, graphic ...

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...

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

There are an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 polar bears on or around Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago as far north as you can fly on a commercial flight. At about 78 degrees north latitude, it is less than ...

“Well, the experience so far has been amazing. I think the biggest thing with training has been the boat moving. So even though you're doing laps around the boat, it's constantly moving. So not ...

When it comes to remote locations, Svalbard is about as far-away as they get. This tiny archipelago is nested between Norway ...

This celestial chart from 1687 is one of many illustrations from books, charts, and maps showing artists’ imaginings of polar bears. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. This article is from ...

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 ...

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 ...