Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the ...

The polar bear alert team's vehicles are gathering outside, trying to move a bear away from town. "If climate change continues," muses Tee's classmate Charlie, "the polar bears might just stop ...

Don't walk alone at night. Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world. Every year, the Hudson Bay - on the western edge of which the town is perched - thaws, and forces the bears on ...

Because we live near polar bears, I'm encouraged to carry a rifle whenever I leave town. I've always been drawn ... and parts of Alaska and Greenland — surrounding the north geomagnetic pole.

Because we live near polar bears, I'm encouraged to carry a rifle whenever I leave town. I've always been drawn to nature's beauty ... northern Canada, and parts of Alaska and Greenland — surrounding ...