A cruise to Svalbard, the Arctic archipelago, is a long-held dream for many. Visitors hope to see polar bears, reindeer, whales, narwhals and glaciers as they journey through the fjords towards the ...

Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, ...

In the Arctic, there’s an airport that shouldn’t exist, at least, not anymore. Once a marvel of Norwegian engineering, it’s ...

Scientists working on the Arctic archipelago’s largest island, Spitsbergen, uncovered a 249-million-year-old bonebed on the side of Mount Marmier. They estimate that it contains more than 30,000 ...

In this ultra-remote archipelago, there are more polar bears than people, no taxes, visas, or cats, and it’s illegal to die or be born there. It’s so far-flung that it houses the Global Seed Vault, ...

Repairs to one of the fiber cables connecting the island of Svalbard to mainland Norway are unlikely to begin for another two to three weeks at least. Last week Space Norway – the Ministry of Trade ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has made a historic, first-time deposit of 4,417 samples of Filipino rice, including important traditional and climate-resilient varieties at the ...

For most people, winter tourism is usually based around ski resorts or winter sun destinations. Few people would consider traveling to the extreme northern latitudes where the sun doesn’t rise for ...

One of the fiber cables connecting the island of Svalbard to mainland Norway is suffering an outage. “Starting at 04:10 Friday 7 January 2022, one of the two connections on the Svalbard fiber has been ...

Polar bears are a big tourist draw to Svalbard, but their habitat is threatened. If you’ve dreamed of touring the European Arctic on a luxury cruise liner, your time is running out. The Norwegian ...