The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.

There was no Barneo in those days but there were floating Soviet ice stations not far from the North Pole that were its predecessors. Our understanding of how the Arctic Ocean currents worked came ...

On the route to the North Pole station, the Akademik Tryoshnikov was caught in a storm in the Barents Sea, and then slowly crashed the way through the ocean's one-year-old ice. Later on ...

"The ship will sail to the North Pole-41 drifting station after the 10th of August, and in another two weeks she will return to the St. Petersburg port." The North Pole platform, serving the North ...

The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point, has been unexpectedly moving toward Russia. While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it ...