Content creator Cecilia Blomdahl documents her undeniably unique life on the icy Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

"Whenever you go outside, you need to look around the corners before stepping out," Cecilia Blomdahl explains of being ...

The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was ...

Blomdahl moved to Svalbard in 2015 and documents her unique life to millions of fascinated social media followers. She has now captured her home’s serenity, sparkling in shades of blue, in a new ...

The Arctic has long been one of the coldest places on Earth. It’s a region of ice, snow, and frozen ground, where temperatures usually stay well below freezing. But today, something very strange—and ...

While the global spotlight recently focused on diplomatic tensions between the United States and Denmark over Greenland, a quieter but equally significant development has been unfolding farther north.

Svalbard Airport, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, is the world’s northernmost airport with scheduled commercial flights. Two airlines, SAS and Norwegian, fly year-round between the airport ...

This - combined with an avalanche that hit Longyearbyen in 2015 - focused her mind. "The avalanche claimed the lives of two people. They were Svalbard's first deaths from climate change," she says.

Svalbard has a population of about 2,500, and its capital, Longyearbyen, is the northernmost town in the world, per the BBC. It doesn't get much warmer than about 42 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer.

Svalbard is a small Norwegian archipelago that sits about halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Longyearbyen, its largest settlement with around 2,000 residents, is the world's northernmost town.

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.

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 ...