The guard had been leading tourists off a cruise ship on an Arctic archipelago.

Polar bear shot dead by cruise ship employee after attacking guard

ITV News has been to see how residents in Longyearbyen, midway between Norway and the North Pole, are living with a new danger - avalanches.

Climate change: the people living in fear of avalanches

A British explorer has become the first to sail anti-clockwise around the north pole in a single summer season - due to the lack of ice.

Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson led the celebrations out Shell's London HQ after the announcement it is to cancel Arctic drilling plans.

British man Keiron Bryan has been held in jail in Russia after the Greenpeace protest ship he was travelling on was seized by authorities. 

Lawrence McGinty is braving temperatures of -28 degrees to examine the theory that melting ice is changing our weather in Britain.