The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

Arctic lodges offer a mix of frontier landscapes and fire-lit comfort that feels both adventurous and surprisingly accessible.

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

Polar bears roam the pack ice around the coastline of Svalbard. Tickets will shortly go on sale for two new Adventures by Disney cruises to Svalbard in 2023. Named the Arctic Expedition Cruise, the 10 ...

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 ...

UK unpigeonholable heavy band Svalbard have announced a followup to 2020’s great When I Die, Will It Get Better?. It’s called The Weight Of The Mask and it’s due October 6 via Nuclear Blast (pre-order ...

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 ...

Heidi Sevestre remembers the dramatic, otherworldly experience of approaching a surging glacier for the first time. In 2013, as her research team’s boat drew close to the Norwegian archipelago of ...

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The Norwegian archipelago has warmed by 4°C over the past 30 years. Landslides and thawing permafrost threaten the population ...

Metal loves its intricately delineated subgenres, but it’s always cool when a band comes along and resolutely refuses to fit into any of them. The UK’s Svalbard are one of those bands. At times, ...