Nathan Gordon Jr. drove his truck on the spit right outside of Kaktovik in early March. He is the city mayor and leads the town's polar bear patrol program. Under his back seat, he had a shotgun, and ...

The results confirmed the researchers' fears. Scientists share findings after analyzing polar bear samples first appeared on The Cool Down.

A few years ago, my aging mother started feeding wildlife outside her back door in Virginia and sending me photos of whatever showed up. It began with birds and squirrels, then a raccoon, then a fox.

Underneath the glaciers polar bears patrol along Alaska’s North Slope, the decayed bodies of their ancestors who trod there ...

"...in 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward struck a deal with a Russian envoy: The United States would purchase ...

For centuries, the Arctic was considered the exclusive domain of polar bears, exotic marine life and the occasional intrepid ...

The polar region is the area around the North Pole and the South Pole. The Arctic in the north and Antarctica in the south. These are the Earth's coldest regions characterised by vast ice sheets.

The U.S. government on Wednesday held its ​most successful sale ever of oil and gas drilling rights in Alaska's National ...

In 2026, HX Expeditions will celebrate 130 years by offering exclusive suite upgrades, discounts, credits, and onboard ...

We’ve just landed in the Alaskan city of Nome to join a cruise through the legendary Northwest Passage.  But it appears that getting on our ship, HX Expeditions’ Roald Amundsen, is going to be a ...

The Arctic Lions 19U Tier II girls’ team were eliminated from the USA Hockey National Championships over the weekend after losing two games in pool play. As luck would have ...

In a recent survey that the Council on Foreign Relations conducted, members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations ranked the Alaska Purchase as the twenty-sixth best decision in ...