A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive ...

A holiday in the Arctic that’s much more than just searching for polar bears - While polar bears are a big tourist draw, the ...

“Do you want to hear the most beautiful sound in the world?” asks Morten, my guide. He uses his ax to scrape pieces of gleaming ice from the glacier, and lets then tumble down a deep blue crevasse, ...

Visiting Svalbard in June also allows travelers to avoid the busier month of July, which marks the height of the Svalbard ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Our planet’s Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe. But Svalbard, which is a cluster of sparsely populated islands east of Greenland and far north of ...

If you came here looking for good Arctic sea ice news, I have some. Kidding, there’s no such thing as good Arctic sea ice news these days. When we last checked in with ice in the north, the picture ...

I am immersed in a landscape of astonishing beauty, summer’s enduring effulgent light. Striated fingers of land reflect on continuous open stretches of water, or polynyas, where mists of sea smoke ...

At the world’s northernmost year-round research station, scientists are racing to understand how the fastest-warming place on Earth is changing – and what those changes may mean for the planet’s ...

Shocking satellite images show how the Norwegian archipelago has, according to NASA Earth Observatory (NEO), "suffered extreme episodes of melting in summer 2024". In late July and early August 2024, ...

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost—has accepted ...

The summer before I turned 40 – with my fertility ebbing, as everyone with a vested interest in such things felt the need to remind me – I decided to set sail on the biggest adventure of my life.

To visitors, the Norwegian archipelago can seem both ethereal and eternal. But climate change all but guarantees an eventual collapse of its vulnerable ecosystem. The strong summer sun melts the top ...