On an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, away from the eyes of most travelers, there is a unique Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or as it is also called, the Doomsday Vault. RBC-Ukraine dwells on this ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate change is an urgent problem in the Arctic. From renewable energy to avalanche protection, here's what we can learn from how people there are protecting their way of life.

A large plot of private land in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago may soon be sold for about €300 million ($330 million), but the deal has raised concerns in Oslo over national security ...

A remote camera from the maternal den research captures Svalbard's mountains and a polar bear mom emerging from a den. Only to be used in media surrounding this report. This is not for use in ...