NORWAY - With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

A large plot of private land in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago may soon be sold for about €300 million ($330 million), but the deal has raised concerns in Oslo over national security.

as well as Baffin Bay and the Canadian Arctic archipelago. However, in the Hudson Bay – where air temperatures were 1-5C above average – “no appreciable sea ice” formed, according to the NSIDC. The ...

Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the Gjøa clears the Arctic Archipelago on this date but has to stop for the winter before going on to Nome on Alaska Territory's Pacific coast.

Deep inside the Arctic circle, the archipelago of Svalbard is one of the fastest warming places on Earth. Yet for most of its history, it has depended on coal for energy and jobs. BBC Click ...

In recent years, Russians have been accused of using the archipelago as a backdrop for propaganda and patriotic stunts, and even sabotage. With the Arctic emerging as one of the most strategically ...

its broad frame motionless beneath the Arctic sky. The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time ...