A holiday in the Arctic that’s more than just searching for polar bears - While polar bears are a big tourist draw, the Arctic has a wealth of wildlife to observe and terrains to explore ...

Reindeer are among the most famous animals out there, largely because of their association with Santa Claus and Christmas. These animals, however, are real and very impressive. They can get quite ...

A video has gone viral on TikTok after a woman shared that people living in Svalbard, a cluster of islands close to the North Pole, must leave a month before their due date to give birth. Cecilia ...

Explore a place where polar bears outnumber people Here’s how to travel and what to do in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, Norway.

Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago north of the mainland, is an ideal place for Aars to study a section of the world’s estimated 26,000 remaining polar bears.

The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway Photo: Alamy The tour operator Hurtigruten Svalbard organizes everything from dog-sledding to backcountry skiing to glacier-adjacent kayaking.

Never before have ordinary people been able to enjoy such an astonishing place. The Arctic is a daily marvel. I awake to see Svalbard's mountains slumped under snow beyond my cabin window.

Deep beneath the barren surface of the Arctic tundra in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault - built to safeguard sources of the world’s food supply - was designed to outlast any disaster ...

This visa-free archipelago in Norway is the northernmost year-round settlement in the world, and its capital, Longyearbyen, is home to people from more than 50 countries.

Norwegian politicians propose putting refugees on Svalbard – remote Arctic islands with more polar bears than people Country’s Green Party hopes that putting people on the archipelago will ...

OSLO/MOSCOW (Reuters) - All eight people on board a missing helicopter off the coast of Svalbard are Russians, the Russian Emergency Ministry told Reuters on Thursday. Rescue teams are still ...

The Mail on Sunday's Lydia Bell embarked on an Arctic adventure in the archipelago of Svalbard. A highlight of her trip was a 50-mile snowmobile safari over the Isfjord.