Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the world's most extreme airports, Norway's Svalbard Airport, is at risk of disappearing. The world's northernmost airport ...

At the world’s northernmost year-round research station, scientists are racing to understand how the fastest-warming place on Earth is changing – and what those changes may mean for the planet’s ...

New, non-native plant species are constantly being found in Svalbard, and researchers are working to ascertain what threat these species pose to the native plants. So far, the Arctic has managed to ...

The Arctic outpost meant to safeguard humanity’s future is now ground zero for a host of issues linked to climate change. Reading time 4 minutes The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid ...

LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY - JULY 29: A Svalbard reindeer reclines while grazing during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 29, 2020 near Longyearbyen, Norway. The Svalbard reindeer are ...

A team of scientists has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2,000 years with powerful computer modeling and in-the-field research on lake sediments and tree rings to show that an understudied ...

In the Arctic, where the reliable supply of energy can mean the difference between life and death, one community is leading the way in one of the planet's most unique renewable energy transitions. For ...