The Arctic outpost meant to safeguard humanity’s future is now ground zero for a host of issues linked to climate change.

On this cruise aboard a ship designed in the late 1990s and built in 2000, I experienced two different cabins. This ...

While the global spotlight recently focused on diplomatic tensions between the United States and Denmark over Greenland, a ...

Scientists played a key role in the struggle to make Svalbard Norwegian, but the greatest polar scientist of them all was ...

A polar bear has been shot dead after apparently attempting to attack residents on Norway's Svalbard archipelago. According to the local authorities on Thursday, the police were told that the polar ...

New regulations present challenges to wildlife viewing in Svalbard, but they haven’t sent tourism into a deep freeze, says ...

A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr. James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary ...

Scientists in Svalbard were shocked to find rain and greenery instead of snow during Arctic winter fieldwork. The event highlights not just warming—but a full seasonal shift with major consequences ...

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) warning came soon after pilots detected disturbances in satellite navigation systems in the ...

A Norwegian P-8A "Poseidon" flew close to Russia's major submarine hubs in the Murmansk region before heading to the ...

Located approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault houses duplicates of over 1.1 million seed ...

The Svalbar pub, located in Longyearbyen, just 650 miles from the North Pole, is up for sale. The new owner will need to endure months of darkness a year and -18C temperatures.