“Let them take Svalbard” was the headline on January 13 for the Norwegian tabloid VG. This was actually a distortion of ...

Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of ...

Norway’s defense minister said the strategic importance of the energy-rich nation’s polar archipelago is rising due to growing great-power rivalry in the Arctic.

While global tensions have focused on Greenland, Norway's military intelligence service said on Friday, 6th February, that ...

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the ...

Norway’s military intelligence has raised alarms over growing Russian and Chinese efforts to expand their presence on the ...

Why polar bears are doing well in Svalbard, problematic seaweed is visible from space, why the common cold hits some people ...

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

Decades of melting sea ice and increasingly ice-free days in the region have not had the expected health impacts on this ...

The fuzzy white predators of Svalbard, Norway, have been getting fatter over the past two decades, possibly by changing their diets and hunting strategies, a new study suggests ...

The world's northernmost town is Longyearbyen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The town is 800 miles from the North Pole and one of the most remote human settlements on Earth. Longyearbyen ...

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the ...