The days of cruises being an elitist activity for the well-to-do are long gone. Here we've scoured the market to find our pick of the crop of the world's best budget cruises.

Though the most widely known royal pets may be Queen Elizabeth II’s brigade of Pembroke Welsh Corgis, the late monarch’s ...

From amazing adventures to dream destinations, here are 106 of the world's most unmissable travel experiences for the year ahead.

While on a remote climbing expedition in Greenland, I was approached by a curious polar bear while scouting fjords ... were forced to learn how to swim in the ocean to help bring the logged ...

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the pack ice north of Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway. Image by Alexey_Seafarer on Depositphotos ... They use their front paws to paddle and their back legs to ...

One of the best places to swim with Orcas is the wintery northern Norway, where large quantities of herring ... and the best chance to observe polar bears safely and up close is from the water.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...

New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant ...

Senior author Bodil Holst, a physicist at the University of Bergen in Norway, was inspired to investigate polar bear fur after watching a TV quiz program, she tells Michael Le Page at New Scientist.

Voyage planning, pollution control, and underwater noise reduction were among the key topics discussed at the 2025 Polar Maritime ... hosted by the (IMO) and Norway’s Chairship of the ...

From the outside, Norway can look like a haven of affluence, a country whose population of just 5.5 million is propped up by a gargantuan sovereign wealth fund worth nearly $2 trillion. Yet the ...