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Chinas aggressive policies in Tibet continue to deepen concerns over both the regions environmental stability and the ...

Cecilia Blomdahl tells PEOPLE exclusively about her life in Svalbard and what it's like living in the dark 24-7 during Polar ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

The golden September sun was wonderfully warm as I passed through the sliding glass doors at the aft of the ninth deck and ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

Now, new information on the mysterious base has come to light. Camp Century was built in 1959 and was operational for seven ...