During these times, it's referred to as a polar night. The opposite, polar day, occurs when there is 24-hour daylight. A polar day is when the sun does not set and stays above the horizon for an ...

A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, beautifully translated by Jane Degras for Pushkin Press, offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the raw beauty and unforgiving challenges of life on a ...

The reasons are the polar nights, thick fogs, routes to outlying mountainous areas and temperatures of minus 60 degrees. It’s a true challenge to find pilots, ready to work in such conditions.

One specific night, dubbed 'polar night' in Svalbard, is the only place in Norway where individuals can experience the strange phenomenon of not being able to tell the difference between night and ...

One of the most unique experiences of living in Antarctica, while filming BBC Dynasties’ Emperor Penguins episode, was the polar night. This is when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon for ...

Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and Loviisan Lämpö, a district heating company in Finland, plan to construct an industrial-scale thermal energy sand-based storage system in the municipality ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature. Most of life’s engines run on sunlight. Photons filter ...

Courtesy of Cecilia Blomdahl Imagine a place where polar bears roam free across rugged, remote terrain of grand glaciers and frozen tundra mixed with sub-zero temps throughout a three-month ...