The Arctic isn’t disappearing; it’s re-emerging. Change is painful, if you believe that a sense of place is about your intimate relation to the animals who ...

The rehabilitation of the gene bank operated by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Off the coast of Tonga, a rare white humpback whale swims closely alongside its mother. Photographer Jono Allen caught the extraordinary moment in a photograph (seen below) that just earned top honors ...

Embarking on a 12-night cruise aboard the Norwegian Star, one of the oldest and smallest ships in the Norwegian Cruise Line ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

In Longyearbyen, Svalbard — often called the world’s northernmost town — life comes with unusual rules. It’s illegal to be buried here, expectant mothers must fly to mainland Norway before giving ...

BARENTSBURG, Norway—This coal mining town about 800 miles from the North Pole is part of Norway, a founding member of NATO. And yet, the salaries here are paid in rubles, TVs broadcast Russian ...

Snow-covered mountains surrounding Longyearbyen in Svalbard. Photo by Colin Ruthven on Unsplash There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily ...

There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal despite speculation that this Norwegian archipelago could be the next Arctic ...