A shortlist of 24 images has been selected for the wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award. You can vote for your favourite image online. The winner will be announced on 25 March and ...

The fuzzy white predators of Svalbard, Norway, have been getting fatter over the past two decades, possibly by changing their diets and hunting strategies, a new study suggests ...

More than 2500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

Why polar bears are doing well in Svalbard, problematic seaweed is visible from space, why the common cold hits some people ...

Eva Gutowski and Olav Stubberud are engaged! Gutowski shared a clip of Stubberud getting down on one knee in front of a scenic spot that looked out over a river and a snowy mountain landscape on ...

Adult polar bears around Norway's Svalbard archipelago have become fatter on average over the past two decades even as Arctic ...

Space Norway has signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency, Forsvarsbygg, for support in constructing a cable landing station on Jan Mayen, a Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean.

Hurtigruten's Hedda Felin aims to change the view of cruise as the "dinosaur" of the travel industry when it comes to fuel ...

Polar bears, a mascot for the impacts of climate change, are threatened by melting sea ice. These iconic Arctic predators ...

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and ...

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...