Along with being the northernmost inhabited place in the world, this Norwegian island is home to many polar bears that you'll ...

A drone view of the Esmarkbreen glacier on Spitsbergen island in Norway HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news ...

I am immersed in a landscape of astonishing beauty, summer’s enduring effulgent light. Striated fingers of land reflect on continuous open stretches of water, or polynyas, where mists of sea smoke ...

In 2015, a fossil treasure trove, comprising 30,000 teeth and bones, was discovered on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. After years of work, paleontologists have identified these fossils as ...

If being in the land of demented-looking ever-present trolls wasn’t quirky enough, I’ve now entered Norway’s Twilight Zone high above the Arctic Circle. This would be Longyearbyen, the northernmost ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

The Russian diplomats hope to get a positive response for the humanitarian purpose of ensuring stability in the Russian settlements, Russia’s Consul General on Spitsbergen Sergey Gushchin noted MOSCOW ...

For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists has discovered remains of ...