CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in ...

Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the resource-rich polar ...

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja were visiting the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the ...

Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration and the Battle for Power at the Top of the World. By Kieran Mulvaney. Island Press; 240 pages; $30 and £24 Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in ...

Joining WSFA, Keith Rudolph, president of the Montgomery River Region Veterans Coalition, is hosting a non-profit event for veterans June 23rd.

Icebreakers provide assured United States access and presence to the polar regions, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Inside this red circle lies the world’s driest non-polar desert, a place where rain is so scarce it may not fall for years or even decades. This desert, unlike polar deserts covered in ice, is a ...

Understanding how birds came to occupy these habitats is key to understanding polar ecosystem evolution and functioning. However, bird fossils from polar regions – particularly those ...

A map of Earth during the Early Cretaceous period 120 million years ago, with Australia seen in the polar region.

The Learjet Polar Mission crew has successfully crossed into both the southern and northern polar regions and has returned to Wichita.

A Learjet succeeded with its first goal of crossing into the southern polar region on Friday. It came after a weather delay that kept the crew in Argentina longer than expected.