Spring is the season home gardeners plant seeds for the vegetables they hope to harvest in the fall. Unbeknownst to most of us, a team of experts is looking much further ahead -- taking extraordinary ...

There is barely any human population or infrastructure in Svalbard. What is there is wildlife. Walruses, seals, reindeer and, of course, polar bears are a big draw for expedition sailings there. To ...

Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food ...

Interest in travel to the Arctic region has been so high that Svalbard introduced a passenger limit on cruise ships at the ...

Discover the best trips to the Arctic. Explore Svalbard polar bears, Greenland fjords, northern lights, and Franz Josef Land ...

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A new study released this week presents the record ice melt on the Svalbard islands in summer 2024 as a glimpse into a future where other Arctic ice masses, including those on Greenland, could melt ...

The Arctic is warming at an unprecedented rate, causing glaciers to shrink faster than ever. Svalbard, an Arctic Archipelago that is part of Norway, lies roughly halfway between the country’s ...

Of all the things I'm allowed to do in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, dying isn't one of them. "The government simply won't allow it," says our guide Hella Liira. Given that I'm on foot in polar ...

Heidi Sevestre remembers the dramatic, otherworldly experience of approaching a surging glacier for the first time. In 2013, as her research team’s boat drew close to the Norwegian archipelago of ...

Earlier this year, the extremely sick UK metal band Svalbard announced that they're breaking up after about 15 years as a band. On Instagram, they wrote, "After much reflection, we have decided that ...

For most people, winter tourism is usually based around ski resorts or winter sun destinations. Few people would consider traveling to the extreme northern latitudes where the sun doesn’t rise for ...