Pregnant polar bear females usually enter the den in late autumn and remain there throughout the winter. They don't eat ...

NATO members and other allies would do well to start thinking about how they’d respond if Russia took action against one of ...

I’ve always been enthralled by tales of daring adventures—stories of people navigating icy landscapes, exploring remote ...

Award-winning Israeli wildlife photographer Roie Galitz leads expeditions to remote regions to document the effects of climate change in nature.

To a layperson, it’s footage of adorable polar bear cubs with their moms against the backdrop of endless Arctic snow. For researchers who study the animals, however, it’s a rare and incredibly ...

Once, we woke up to the captain calling everyone to the deck. A young polar bear was attempting to board Barba. We kept it at ...

From April 19 until August 23, the remote Svalbard Islands experience a natural phenomenon known as the midnight sun, according to Visit Svalbard. During this time, the sun never dips below the ...

Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million samples in what is the ...

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The proposal to rename Svalbard as the "Pomor Islands" by Sergey Mironov reflects Russia's focus on asserting its historic ...