Think of the Arctic Circle and your mind may wander to a land far removed from your own, one that is bitterly cold, near inhospitable and shrouded in darkness for part of the year. While the concept ...

F OR MORE than four centuries, wave after wave of explorers experienced failure as they searched for an east-west maritime ...

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

Cecilia Blomdahl lives full-time in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago that lies between the Northern coast of Norway and the ...

The research revealed that, although the amount of methane released by Arctic lakes is generally lower than that released by ...

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

Discover the midnight sun, where daylight lasts for months in Arctic regions, its causes, best locations, and climate change ...

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 ...

Resting on a solitary slab of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, a majestic creature sparkles in the polar summer sunshine. Camouflaged by a crisp covering of snow, the animal I’m observing melts into ...

Where bears outnumber people Svalbard is a glacier-covered archipelago roughly 600 nautical miles off the northern coast of Norway that’s considered Europe’s last true wilderness.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the "Doomsday" vault or bank, is designed to save the world's crops and plants if disaster strikes.

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.