What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the blue light of an early Arctic morning, seven wolves slid across a frozen pond, yipping and squealing and ...

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 ...

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

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... miniature porcelain polar bears—an iconography of the Arctic and Antarctic. On a wall is a portrait of Vladimir ...

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.

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... halfway between Norway and the North Pole, a flock of arctic terns soar and wheel in the perpetual daylight.

The National Geographic docuseries "Arctic Ascent" brings to the forefront an expedition that's not just about conquering the unclimbed but also about understanding our planet's fragile ecosystems.

Oceanxplorers, a new documentary series from National Geographic, invites us to dive ... From the warm waters of the Caribbean to the frigid Arctic, this series promises to push the boundaries ...