In October 2004, the Norwegian government pledged to finance and create a Global Seed Vault in the mountains of Svalbard (also called Svalbard).

The quiet archipelago of Svalbard has ice-capped mountains and rows of little homes as far as the eye can see. It is also at the center of geopolitical tensions between Norway and Russia. The ...

On the Svalbard archipelago, during the months without sunlight, one starts to see strange things in the dark. Operafjellet, or the Opera Mountain, on Spitsbergen, the main island of Norway’s ...

A remote camera from the maternal den research captures Svalbard's mountains and a polar bear mom emerging from a den.  ...

We had booked the tour ahead of our Svalbard trip—a hike up the Sarkofagen mountain 500m above sea level and rising between two glaciers. The activity had a difficulty level of three on five ...

Norway weighs blocking a €300M sale of 23 square miles of land over security concerns as international buyers seek foothold in strategic Svalbard territory.

Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, is thought to be heating at six times the global average.

Muscat: An Omani adventurer has reached the highest mountain peak in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Omani adventurer Suleiman bin Hamoud Al-Naabi managed to reach the highest mountain peak in the ...