Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. Researchers took more than 1,000 body measurements ...
“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...
“Let them take Svalbard” was the headline on January 13 for the Norwegian tabloid VG. This was actually a distortion of ...
Polar bears across the Arctic have long been seen as early victims of climate change. But new research suggests one ...
Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has duplicates of over 1 million seed varieties from around the world. The vault's coordinator said it's part of a global gene bank — but it's not a "doomsday vault." ...
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 ...
In Svalbard — An Arcticficial Life, Julia de Cooker photographs the life and landscapes of one of the northernmost human settlements. Cover of Julia de Cooker Svalbard – An Arcticficial Life (courtesy ...
Following two years of travel restrictions, 2022 was a bumper year for travel in Norway. Nowhere was that trend seen more than the Arctic archipelago Svalbard. On the busiest days, the small terminal ...
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 ...