The Doomsday Vault protects millions of seeds and the world's digital data, stored safely to help preserve life on Earth.

Soar over Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town, nestled on the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago.

Adela Bugyíková, a woman who spent two years living in Greenland, reflects on Arctic life, tight-knit communities and why locals reject Trump’s ambitions for the island.

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

Fears about climate change and global conflict eradicating plant species and changing the face of the planet have prompted environmentalists and researchers to send 30,000 new seed samples to a ...

1 Scientific Foundation “Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre” (Nansen Centre, NIERSC), Saint Petersburg, Russia. 2 Institute of International Trade and Sustainable Development ...

In 2015, a team of scientists began digging through frozen cliffs on an Arctic island named Spitsbergen in search of fossils from ancient marine life. The location was remote, the work was exhausting, ...

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 ...

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 gayest invasion of World War II was Britain’s raid on Spitsbergen (TIME, Sept. 15). News which Britain let out last week established that fact and by implication a good deal more about the ...