Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

From a young age, Roald Amundsen dreamed of exploring the world and habitually slept with his windows open — even during ...

Interior Antarctica is perpetually snow covered, experiencing extreme radiational cooling, but the North Pole sits over the Arctic Ocean, whose heat and occasionally ice-free waters moderate air ...

(Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center/ NASA Earth Observatory ... open water and evidence of melt ponds atop sea ice in the heart of the Arctic Ocean region. The North Pole is marked by an X.

An extraordinarily powerful storm system is spinning across the North Atlantic Ocean, just southeast of ... dramatic and unusual warmup at the North Pole this week. For the third time this winter ...

Temperatures in the North Pole soared above freezing over the weekend — with the high Arctic reaching 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) above average. Scientists are concerned that ...

The magnetic North ... the pole — updating the model every five years — as it moved closer to the coast of northern Canada; then in the 1990s, it drifted into the Arctic Ocean before picking ...

Luckily in Svalbard — a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean that's as close to the North Pole as most people ... Reindeer graze on snow and a giant Christmas tree is lit up all ...

At the top of the world in the middle of the Arctic Ocean lies the geographic North Pole, the point where all the lines of longitude that curve around Earth from top to bottom converge in the north.