"A triumph that I could swim in such ferocious conditions, but a tragedy that it's possible to swim at the North Pole." Pugh said he hoped that his swim will make world leaders take climate change ...

TORONTO – A British explorer has braved sub-zero temperatures to become the first person to swim at the North Pole. Lewis Gordon Pugh took to the freezing waters on Sunday to highlight the ...

"Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at 0°C.

Santa’s workshop is safe. Amid all the frenzy caused by news reports saying that photos show the polar ice caps melting, scientists are just now starting to explain what exactly the images are ...

Thanks to rapidly-melting ice, Santa Claus now has his own swimming pool: The North Pole is currently a lake, Canada.com reports. The shallow lake — it's about a foot deep, according to ...

"Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at 0 degrees Celsius.

Eric Larsen, the Wisconsin native who for nearly a decade has been trying to raise public awareness of climate change, arrived at the North Pole last week, and he had to swim part of the way to ...

Today is an extremely unusual December day at the North Pole, with temperatures getting very close to the melting point of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Celsius. For perspective, the ...

A British adventurer is planning to highlight the effects of global warming by becoming the first person to swim at the North Pole and break his own record for the coldest swim.

Unless Santa Claus likes to swim, he probably doesn't live at the geographic North Pole. No people do, but there are polar bears and walruses there.

A British swimmer who says he wants to wake politicians around the world up to the threat of climate change has successfully completed a kilometre-long swim in the freezing water of the North Pole ...