UW oceanographer and polar expert Jamie Morison, seen testing Arctic sea ice in 2003, has seen dramatic changes in the ice after more than three decades of research trips to the North Pole.

A couple of weeks ago, the North Pole/Barneo ice camp season fizzled out, leaving disappointed skiers, marathon runners, and champagne tourists. Environmentalists have pointed out that the whole ...

Wayzata, Minnesota’s 61-year old Shawn O’Grady will compete in quite a grueling race for his last marathon. He’ll run the ...

From Open Water at the North Pole, to a Marathon Run on an Ice Floe, It Was Quite an Arctic Summer The extent of Arctic sea ice has shriveled to its lowest extent for the year, heralding the end of ...

Unlike its counterpart, Antarctica's South Pole, the Geographic North Pole is not situated on a landmass, though it's sometimes covered in a floating sheet of sea ice, depending on the seasonal ...

But scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift nearly 90 feet (27 metres) by 2100. As the polar ice sheets melt faster in the warming climate, ...

British physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explains how Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's expedition to the North Pole was 'one of the most bonkers and brilliant experiments ever devised'.

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...