Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The effects of the melting are devastating. At some point soon, the Arctic could be ice free. “Most models suggest that this could could happen around the middle of this century ...

Past colonial atrocities and catastrophes have not deterred today’s global powers from vying for control of the Arctic.

A cold front bringing temperatures feeling close to -30 C on Saturday morning was expected in areas north of the city, including parts of York and Durham regions. Midland, Kawartha Lakes ...

Rural focused UK ISP Quickline has today announced that they’ve connected the first homes under their £73.5m state-aid supported Project Gigabit roll-out contract for North Yorkshire (Lot 31). This ...

A north Derbyshire pub which closed six years ago is poised to be converted into two homes and have two new houses built on its car park under an application for planning consent. Did you know ...

Around 8,000 to 6,000 BCE, the North and Baltic seas ... were exploited 9000 to 8500 years ago,” Peter Moe Astrup, underwater archaeologist at Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum, said in a press ...

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on Earth.

This remote archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean between mainland Norway and the North Pole ... That's because high-speed underwater fiber cables connect communications between Svalbard ...

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and ...