It isn’t every day someone casually mentions they are heading back to a cabin near the North Pole. Yet, that is exactly what 57-year-old Hilde Fålun Strøm, a citizen scientist based in Longyearbyen, ...

Reconnection The inspiration for Tuve Halse’s new album, Reconnection, made with her quintet, comes in part from a trip she made to Svalbard, a remote archipelago in the Arctic Circle where polar ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and disrupt ocean currents, on top of the consequences for people and wildlife that ...

Secret Atlas, pioneers of small-group polar exploration, has announced a new Svalbard and Greenland Summer Expedition Micro ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Photographer Jono Allen caught the extraordinary moment in a photograph (seen below) that just earned top honors at the World Nature Photography Awards 2026. “Sharing this moment with Mãhina and her ...

On February 27, the world marks International Polar Bear Day, a time dedicated to raising awareness about the conservation ...

Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received nearly 8,000 new donations from two countries and the Olive Genebank of the ...

Adventure Canada has announced a new eight-day expedition to Svalbard with two departures in 2027. The “Svalbard: North to the Midnight Sun” departures are planned for May 18-25, 2027, and June 1-8, ...

It might seem like an unorthodox tradition, but Bodø/Glimt are no ordinary club. Based in a town of 50,000 people in the Arctic Circle, they employ former Norwegian Air Force fighter pilot Bjorn ...

Rocky slopes and partial snow surround this polar bear in Svalbard, Norway. The Arctic coastline appears ice-free in this ...