The exquisite beauty of Russia's far northern Kola Peninsula shines through decades of environmental damage in photographer Vasily G's breathtaking…
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The eerie cliff-hanging village of Uvitok still clings to the forbidding shore of Alaska's King Island, long after its last…
From pulling Santa's sleigh to providing sustenance to a host of tundra-dwelling humans and animals, these 7 reindeer subspecies need…
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When's a mountain not a mountain or a volcano? When it's a pingo! Pingos are conical ice-cored landforms towering up…
Thanks to climate change, the world’s polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate, with consequences including rising sea…
Spiky white ‘blooms’ scatter across the surface of the Arctic Ocean in stunning photographs captured by University of Washington graduate…
When each of these 10 species stand against a background of pure white snow, they’re difficult to spot: they have…
Humans have used some highly unusual materials to build necessary structures over the millennia, but natural materials are the most…
There are few places on earth more hostile to human life than Russia's Wrangel Island - when it comes to…
At the ends of the earth, where man-made architecture of any kind is exceedingly rare, it can be jarring to…