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LONDON -- The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months. The ...

After 61 days of traveling across Arctic ice on skis, Mike Horn and Borge Ousland have completed their unassisted trek to the North Pole. They're the first explorers to do so in winter, during ...

A former soldier who spent Christmas at the South Pole is now climbing the highest peak in Antarctica, as he continues his ...

The movement of the magnetic North Pole is the result of the Earth having an active core. The inner core, starting about ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of course. But unlike the South Pole, ...

TORONTO -- Five explorers using huskies and wooden sleds reached the North Pole on Tuesday, setting a world record by coming in several hours earlier than a 37-day trek by American explorer Robert E.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When the morning of April 7, 1909 dawned, Matthew Henson checked the temperature outside. It was 29 below zero. Later that day, Henson and the man he worked for, Robert Peary, would ...

As we marvel at the technology around us, we realize that we have the wealth of human knowledge at our fingertips. With just ...

The North Pole, geographically speaking, is the northernmost point on Earth. It marks the intersection of the Earth’s axis and the Earth’s surface. From there, every direction you turn would be south.

It was perhaps the biggest news story of 1909. Or perhaps it’s better said that there were two competitors for the biggest news story of 1909, both of them seeking the same headline. Arctic explorer ...