China and Russia have a big lead in efforts to control once impenetrable Arctic waters. The U.S. is spending billions on new icebreakers in a race to catch up.
Global warming is threatening these endangered animals by shrinking Arctic sea ice. In Svalbard, polar bears, dangerous predators with thick white fur, are stil...
In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning...
Thousands of thrill-seekers brrr-aved frigid 27-degree weather to kick off the New Year with an icy splash at Coney Island’s annual polar bear plunge Thursday...
New York City could see its first snow of the season on Tuesday as a powerful polar vortex sweeps across the eastern half of the country, bringing frigid temper...
Forecasters have placed New York City, Long Island, and parts of New Jersey under a freeze watch as unseasonably bone-chilling temperatures are expected to blan...
A Finnish investigator told 60 Minutes that the container vessel Newnew Polar Bear was responsible for the damage when it dragged its anchor over undersea cable...