Other creatures that have been spotted at the North Pole include whales and ring seals, as well as a variety of migrating birds, including the snow bunting ... and the Arctic Ocean in its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

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 ...