The Latest Breaking News from Svalbard

Flora Wilson Brown’s play spans 250 years of climate science – from 1850s New York to 2100 Svalbard – to examine what it means to bring a child into our ecologically inhospitable world

Svalbard’s airport is working hard to reduce the effects of climate change as its runway has started to melt

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average since 1979. Svalbard, an archipelago near the northeast coast of Greenland, is at the frontline of this climate change, warming up to seven times faster than the rest of the world.

A 2023 satellite image captured a pair of peculiar phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky around Norway's Bear Island, which is surrounded by extremely radioactive waters left behind by a doomed Soviet submarine.

Those who live in the dark say it’s not as bad as it sounds

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