While the global spotlight recently focused on diplomatic tensions between the United States and Denmark over Greenland, a ...

Russia increases its presence in Svalbard. This area is under Norway's control. Experts believe Moscow uses US Arctic moves ...

A Norwegian P-8A "Poseidon" flew close to Russia's major submarine hubs in the Murmansk region before heading to the ...

A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr. James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary ...

New commentary by researchers reveals dramatic shift in the Arctic winter in Svalbard, a region already warming six to seven ...

Arctic winters are melting fast. Scientists in Svalbard report rain, thaw, and rising risks in what was once reliably frozen terrain.

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) warning came soon after pilots detected disturbances in satellite navigation systems in the ...

When Svalbard Airport, world’s northernmost destination for scheduled commercial flights, was built, no one expected the permafrost its runway was built on would ever melt. Now it is, and that ...

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear -- one of the most dangerous predators on the ...

A year in Svalbard is marked by two unusual periods of light: polar night and midnight sun. Polar night runs from mid-November to the end of January, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon.

Svalbard is also home to some of the Earth’s northernmost glaciers, which bury most of the archipelago’s surface under no less than 200 metres of thick ice. Taken together, ...