In 1968, a Minnesota insurance salesman named Ralph Plaisted was sitting in a bar, talking to a friend about snowmobiles. His friend said that if snowmobiles were so great, he should be able to ride ...

Alaska is a fascinating state, being the largest in the Union. It’s also a geographical phenomenon, being the country’s ...

Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...

MEP recently visited the territory that Donald Trump has firmly set his sights on, and found a defiant population.

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear ... from the North Pole to the Barents Sea.

Small icebergs floated just offshore ... ships entering the Arctic Polar Code area – a regulated maritime zone around the North Pole – increased by 37% between 2013 and 2024.

Reaching the North Pole was a fantasy of the ancients ... Once the two of them actually achieved their goal, they ate the polar bear they shot, first boiling the frozen meat.

It’s a big world out there, especially for polar bear cubs emerging from their dens ... an archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole–were fitted with GPS satellite collars.

Maybe you’ll be beguiled by the geometrically pristine reflections of icebergs off Ellesmere Island in Canada ... One photograph shows a hunter dressed fearsomely in polar bear, seal, caribou and wolf ...

This remote archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is home to the ... casually roaming the streets and polar bear warnings — it couldn't be more ...

Harpreet Chandi, nicknamed Polar Preet, says she hopes her trek to the North Pole will inspire people ... weight of about 62kg (9st 10lbs). A polar bear attack is a potential danger but detailed ...