Last year, Longyearbyen recorded an average July temperature over 10°C, challenging the traditional polar climate definition ...

Cecilia Blomdahl moved to the Svalbard archipelago - near the North Pole - in 2015. Here she reveals the joys, challenges and ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions.

Added Nov 04, 2024 at 01:28PM EST by Phillip Hamilton. On January 2nd, 2020, visit [1] reported that a polar bear was killed ...

In fact, however, the archipelago of Svalbard has daily flights to other Norwegian cities. Its cosmopolitan capital, Longyearbyen, is home to 2,700 people from 50 countries, drawn by ecotourism and ...

Blomdahl, who lives in Svalbard’s largest city of Longyearbyen, is one of about 2,500 residents in the region. Here, colorful ...

Do you want to try an exiting and traditionell way of travelling in the Arctic? Join us for a kayak trip over the Advent Bay.

A Brit who regularly travels the world shared a review of his stay in the "strangest place on Earth" - and seems quite mind-blown by the trip.

A seasoned British tourist travelled to the 'most northerly settlement on Earth' where he splashed out £230 per night to take ...

Svalbard is a key origin point for Arctic cruises, where trips have doubled since 2016. Climate change is melting ice more ...

This year, roughly 500 cruise ships have docked in Longyearbyen, the main settlement in the archipelago. While they range from boutique vessels with 12 berths to major liners with 14 decks and ...