President Donald Trump argues that U.S. security demands the annexation of Greenland from Denmark. There’s no question that ...

There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal ...

“Let them take Svalbard” was the headline on January 13 for the Norwegian tabloid VG. This was actually a distortion of comments by Croatian president Zoran Milanović, giving the misleading impression ...

Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of international cooperation, as climate change transforms the region and ...

How will a warming Arctic affect plant growth on Svalbard? Researchers encased plant plots in a thick layer of ice during the ...

Deep beneath an icy Norwegian mountain above the Arctic Circle lies the largest concentration of agricultural diversity on Earth. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the "Doomsday" vault or ...

Longyearbyen is the biggest settlement on the Norway-administered Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Despite not having a single case of COVID-19 reported so far, Svalbard’s economy has been hit hard by ...

Studying close to 800 bears over nearly 25 years shows that polar bear populations in the rapidly warming Barents Sea, off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, are doing better than polar bears ...