While the global spotlight recently focused on diplomatic tensions between the United States and Denmark over Greenland, a ...

A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr. James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary ...

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 ...

Scientists in Svalbard were shocked to find rain and greenery instead of snow during Arctic winter fieldwork. The event highlights not just warming—but a full seasonal shift with major consequences ...

Svalbard’s permafrost and year-round low temperatures – the average high is just 7C in summer – also proved ideal for the installation of the Global Seed Vault, ...

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

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.

Climate change is an urgent problem in the Arctic. From renewable energy to avalanche protection, here's what we can learn from how people there are protecting their way of life.

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, ...

Svalbard is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. The low altitude of the archipelago's ice fields and geographical location in the high North Atlantic make it especially sensitive to ...