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

Scientists in Svalbard were shocked to find rain and greenery instead of snow during Arctic winter fieldwork. The event highlights not just warming—but a full seasonal shift with major consequences ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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. Taken together, ...

Svalbard’s permafrost and year-round low temperatures – the average high is just 7C in summer – also proved ideal for the installation of the Global Seed Vault, ...