Beneath the vast Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, there’s a weird world unlike any other

Photographer and keen mountain biker Andy Lloyd sails north of the Arctic Circle to Norway’s northern fjords on the cycle trip of a lifetime

After a decade and a half of excavations, archæologists have uncovered the naturally mummified remains of well over 100 indigenous Yakuts of north-eastern Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth.

Head to Alaska, America’s largest state, for everything from gold-rush glamour to Arctic adventures

Just before Christmas, a bitter wind blew in. Ice and snow descended, first in Scotland and then, on Boxing Day, across the rest of the UK. Before it could melt or the new year arrive, a second blizza

Wind whipped beach walks, kayaking forays and, above ...