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.

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For isolated communities at the top of the world, keeping the planet’s largest land predators — polar bears — out of town is key to coexistence. That can mean ...

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

They are not found in Antarctica, even though the North and South poles are both snow-covered, icy-cold environments. Polar bears range across the Arctic Ocean, in parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, ...

potentially unlocking alternatives to harmful “forever chemicals” used in ice-resistant coatings today Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals ...

Moments later, a bear galloped away from town, with a patrol unit ... the village of Kaktovik in northern Alaska. They had the opposite problem — so many polar bears that no one dared go outside.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club sued the federal government today for failing to properly evaluate harms from the Alaska LNG project to several threatened and ...