Human bones and artifacts from the largest whalers’ graveyard in the archipelago are at risk of disintegrating.

The Arctic seed vault disaster revealed how climate change threatens humanity's most vital food security backup plan. The ...

One of the most remote locations in the world, Svalbard’s Seed Vault safeguards global food security by storing 1.4 million ...

China’s Yellow River facility in Svalbard – before the stone lions were ordered to be removed. Credit: Marc Lanteigne It has been almost a decade now since Beijing announced its revised Arctic ...

Morocco placed more than 1,100 seed samples in Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, the world’s largest secure seed-storage facility, in June to help safeguard crop ...

A floating research station designed to drift with Arctic sea ice has left France to begin a major scientific mission that ...

A potentially explosive political tussle is playing out on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. And some fear the world isn’t paying enough attention.

Extreme weather is expected to shift where and when tourists go on vacation, and what a luxury experience looks like.

The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard has become a key outpost for Arctic science. But geopolitical tensions are complicating research efforts. ON SVALBARD IN NORWAY—A few years ago, Nil Rodes was ...

Textile preservation in Phase III burials from Field area B. Phase III burials from Field area B show markedly better textile preservation than Phase II, reflecting more stable burial conditions and ...

This shocking debut exposé from environmental lawyer Civiletto details more than a century of the electrochemical industry’s poisoning of Niagara Falls, N.Y. Born and raised in Continue reading » Man ...