Jørgen Berge and his team of biologists were tooling around in a Svalbard fjord in the middle of the night as part of a two-week-long sea-ice research cruise. Their motorized rubber boat was puttering ...

It might be hard to imagine living in darkness for several months at a time, but that's the reality for locations north of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. During these times, it's referred to as a ...

UTQIAGVIK, Alaska - Utqiagvik, Alaska has seen its last sunrise this year; America's northernmost settlement will not see the Sun again until Jan. 22, 2026, as Polar Night begins in the Arctic Circle.

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The northernmost town in America is about to experience several weeks of darkness. After getting 30 minutes of daylight, the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska – formerly known as Barrow – saw its final sunset ...

The northernmost town in the United States entered its “polar night” this week. The sun took a bow on Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, at 1:27 p.m. local time Monday. It won’t return until ...

The polar night regions are Chukotka, the Krasnoyarsk, Yakutia, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Nenets and Yamalo-Nenets, and Komi MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS Correspondent Viktoria Melnikova/. People living in ...