The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

A pioneering mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago involves taking fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...

Scientists have recreated the ancient habitat of dinosaurs that lived near the Antarctic Circle about 120 million years ago, ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south ...