STOCKHOLM, May 19 (Reuters) - Bird flu has been detected in a dead polar bear in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, the first time the virus has been found ‌in the species in Europe, a Norwegian ...

Svalbard reindeer live in a place so remote they have actually evolved to become a subspecies. But that remoteness isn't enough to protect them from contaminants from the industrial world. Researchers ...

President Donald Trump argues that U.S. security demands the annexation of Greenland from Denmark. There’s no question that Greenland has outsize strategic importance to the United States. The island ...

THE DAYS OF BAKING AHEAD. COME THIS WEEKEND, THE LINES WILL BE OUT THE DOOR FOR THE SALE HERE AT SAINT CECILIA’S CHURCH IN LEBANON COUNTY. AND THEY ALREADY HAVE ALL THE MATERIALS PREPPED AND READY TO ...

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Polar bears have been getting fatter even as sea ice disappears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the fastest-warming place on Earth – but scientists don’t expect the good times to last. The northern ...

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. The tension between Russia and the ...

Map showing Svalbard, which is a Norwegian Arctic archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Circled in red are NATO territories and reveal the convenient distance between the archipelago ...

Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a century-old painting of Jesus Christ captured global headlines more than a decade ago, has died. She was 94. Officials in Borja, ...

A grinch is on the loose in New Jersey. A heartless burglar broke into a Garden State church three days before Christmas and trashed the place as they stole thousands of dollars in donations, ...