The debate over Arctic drilling has intensified as the Middle East conflict and the disruption of shipping through the Strait ...

Polar bears near the remote archipelago of Svalbard are getting heavier, not thinner, even as the sea ice they depend on continues to shrink. New research points to conservation history as a key ...

Canadian, German and Norwegian leaders were scheduled to meet in the Norwegian Arctic on Friday to discuss the region’s fragile security situation, ...

A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – greeted the first passenger ship of the season as Russia begins direct travel from Murmansk to Svalbard.

A man wearing an Arktikugol anorak walks through a blizzard in Barentsburg, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP) A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – ...

As a rare exception, this off-the-beaten-path destination in Europe allows people to live there without a visa, though there are a few catches.

With its obsidian-black hull and sails, Varg Sail Yacht cuts a striking figure in the wintry fjords of northern Norway. The ...

The retreat of ice in the Barents Sea could be strengthening a key ocean current that regulates global climate.

The first of ten voyages this year allowing Russian citizens visa-free access to the Norwegian archipelago departed Murmansk on Sunday.

Dickinson students take in the Northern Lights near Tromsø, Norway, during the Arctic Art and Science Mosaic trip. "Neither words nor photographs, no matter how striking, can fully convey the ...

It isn’t every day someone casually mentions they are heading back to a cabin near the North Pole. Yet, that is exactly what 57-year-old Hilde Fålun Strøm, a citizen scientist based in Longyearbyen, ...

This is one of a series of interviews in which Kim Hoo-ran, editor-at-large at The Korea Herald, speaks with leaders, trailblazers, unsung heroes, and both well ...