Late on Monday night, in the bright sunlit tundra of the South Pole, another record is broken as 21-year-old Norwegian Karen Kyllesø stepped past the line of na ...

You would have woken up warmer Tuesday in these four arctic cities. But did South Bend beat even the South Pole?

Several local people kept a diary of events in Basingstoke over the years, including Samuel Attwood, who wrote for more than half a century, ...

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Shortly afterwards Nares himself set off on that century’s last attempt to reach the North Pole ... Amundsen, on the other hand, did not share these assumptions; trained by Eskimos and equipped with ...

The frozen continent has never been so desirable. But as other nations try to get in on the action, a race to the bottom beckons ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Jonny Huntington, 38, has credited his private school education for setting him on the right track to become the first disabled person to ski solo to the South Pole earlier this month. But the ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.