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 ...

New commentary by researchers reveals dramatic shift in the Arctic winter in Svalbard, a region already warming six to seven ...

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear -- one of the most dangerous predators on the ...

Arctic winters - once considered the most stable and predictable part of the region’s climate - are becoming warm, wet, and unstable.

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) warning came soon after pilots detected disturbances in satellite navigation systems in the ...

Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, is thought to be heating at six times the global average.

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.

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.

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, ...