NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE The end result, says Kelly, is likely to be a tremendous, irreversible loss of genetic diversity. But even if that weren’t the case, the Arctic’s wildlife would st ...

Photograph by RENAN OZTURK, Nat Geo Image Collection Bjarne Gronnow, a research professor in Arctic archeology at the National Museum of Denmark, says he’s seen thirty feet of a Thule settlement ...

Once considered remote and pristine, the Arctic is now succumbing to a tide of plastic. In Norway, a monumental effort is underway to curb its spread.

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right, and his son, Nikita, run an Arctic research station in Cherskiy, Russia, along the Kolyma River.

Above the Arctic Circle, this lively resort encapsulates the wild heart of Finnish Lapland — and hits its stride in winter, ...

Normal sledding pace is less than five miles an hour. When Jesper crashed, they were a little more than halfway through the ...

Stalk the Arctic ice with the fiercest predator, the polar bear, as it prowls one of the most forbidding places on the planet: a hidden kingdom of magnificent creatures. Armed with a keen sense of ...

Explore National Geographic’s 2025 picks, including Tunisia’s Roman ruins, Greenland’s icebergs, and Indonesia’s coral reefs ...

Having written for National Geographic, I felt like a star on the ... Fair warning — being near the arctic, the weather can get pretty dicey and the ocean swells are massive.