Scientists say the thinning ozone layer over the South Pole makes climate change take place more quickly than in other areas of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

There is a local figure, famous for carrying a long pole over his shoulder, painted with barber stripes.

NEWYORKER: Youth in Revolt

No global blackouts, no old Soviet ICBMs racing over the North Pole, no collapse of civilization as we know it.

FORBES: Malone's musings

It was 70 years ago, in 1937, that Ivan Papanin first landed on drifting ice floes and raised the Soviet flag over the North Pole-1 station.

ECONOMIST: Ventures into the near-abroad