This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov ... The descent was ...

Typically, research teams have been unable to access the central Arctic regions during winter due to the thickness of the ice. By sticking around for the full year and drifting with the ice pack ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the world's most remarkable oceans. It's home to a multitude of unique life ...

An unexpected project could well slow the melting of the Arctic ice pack. A young British start-up is attempting a simple but ...

The Planet Earth-observation company has just released new imagery of the broken Milne Ice Shelf in the Arctic. Located on the northern margin of Canada's Ellesmere Island, the ice platform split ...

charting the fate of Arctic sea ice by going with the floe. The Norwegians have done this before, more than a century ago, when polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram were locked in pack ice ...