It’s up to an Alaska federal court to decide who has the rights to a portion of land between the Canning and Staines rivers ...

Named after a Norwegian ship that explored the Arctic and Antarctic regions at the turn of the 20th century, Fram2 will ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

This year, 21 athletes participated in Unalaska’s annual Polar Bear Run. The 5K race down Summer Bay Road, which took place ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.