Runners participating in the North Pole Marathon are wasting no second of their training even if they are on a ship. Ahead of ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear.

(Image credit: NOAA Climate) A major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has bumped the ring of wind that circles the North Pole off its perch and towards Europe, a new animation shows.

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

Unveiled in 2021, the 245-passenger vessel — named after a famed French polar explorer — is made for the ice like no other. It is a true icebreaker of the sort that only governments have built until ...

Koda, the other Memphis Zoo polar bear, will remain in Tennessee, and seems to be adjusting well to Haley's departure. Polar bear Haley, as seen during her time with the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee.

The polar bear population is considered to be vulnerable in the wild. Currently, there are less 60 bears living in zoos across the county and the North Carolina Zoo is the home to one of them.

Sinking slowly Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward That, plus data from the InSight lander, gives us a new view into Mars' interior.

In ’After the North Pole,' explorer chronicles impossible challenges Nonfiction: An engaging history of the quest to reach the North Pole from a Norwegian explorer who knows all about extreme trips.