The Latest Breaking News from Svalbard

For nearly a decade, researchers have gathered camera footage from outside the dens of female polar bears and their cubs on Svalbard, shedding light on the behaviors linked to denning.

For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts

Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy because of the symbolic — and very real — value of seeds.

Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer

Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases…

The Joides Resolution has contributed to our understanding of climate crisis, the origin of life, earthquakes and eruptions. But funding cuts mean it may have sailed its last expedition

Researchers have discovered a deep-sea hydrothermal vent field near Svalbard in an area previously assumed to be geologically inactive. The newfound vents have been named after various entities from Norse mythology.

As the ice melts, now is the time to explore the far north

Around 60% of Svalbard’s 3,000 inhabitants are Norwegians, while the rest comes from a wide variety of nations