As the Arctic region is transformed by climate change, Russia's presence in Svalbard starts to look like a stroke of ...

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

While America is focused on Greenland, there is another country which is crucial to Nato and Arctic security. Could this be the reason why Trump is picking a fight with the Norwegian prime minister ...

Svalbard is the World's last village where a seed vault preserves more than 1.3 million seed samples. Visit Svalbard Have you heard of a place where births and burials are forbidden? Well! That's the ...

There is one place on Earth where immigration rules function differently from anywhere else. Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the High Arctic, allows anyone to live and work there ...

As the dark season begins, Svalbard enters a period of continuous night known as the polar night. This video explores daily life during 24-hour darkness, how people adapt to limited daylight, and what ...

Svalbard is important for Russia because of its location at the gateway to the Barents Sea and the proximity to the Northern Fleet's bases on the Kola Peninsula, Bones explains in this podcast.

Hurtigruten is unveiling two new Svalbard itineraries for 2026 and beyond. The newly announced offerings, which are either 13 or 17 days long, combine Hurtigruten’s popular Svalbard Line with several ...

A new study released this week presents the record ice melt on the Svalbard islands in summer 2024 as a glimpse into a future where other Arctic ice masses, including those on Greenland, could melt ...

An assessment programme has been submitted to the Governor of Svalbard for the construction of a small modular reactor power plant on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago, marking the first formal step ...

Roads in Longyearbyen, the most northerly settlement on the planet, are usually blocked only by a resurgent reindeer population. On August 14th the few thoroughfares in the small capital of Svalbard ...