The little-known story of eight English sailors who survived the winter of 1630 stranded in Spitsbergen without a ship and ...

Along with being the northernmost inhabited place in the world, this Norwegian island is home to many polar bears that you'll ...

It's late morning on board the MS Trollfjord when the announcement comes through: "Land in sight!" Welcome news after sailing 523 nautical miles - 970 kilometres - the distance between Honningsvag and ...

MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS Correspondent Vitaly Korneyev/. Most Russians have heard at least something about Spitsbergen - a cold Arctic archipelago. The name is associated with the vast snowy ...

ABOARD THE FRAM -- Standing at the bow of one of expedition cruising's hardiest ships as it crunches northward through a carpet of ice, Cecilia Donnelly is almost giggly with excitement. And who can ...

ST. PETERSBURG, December 13. /TASS/. The Clean Arctic federal project plans to begin a cleanup mission on Spitsbergen in spring, 2023, the project's COB Ruslan Gubaidullin told TASS. "From May, we ...

For years, methane emissions from the seabed have been observed in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. The assumption that the warming of seawater by climate change is responsible for the release of ...

LONGYEARBYEN, Spitsbergen – If you come to this remote Arctic outpost, where there are more polar bears (3,000) than humans (2,500) and the sun doesn’t set from mid-April to late August, get used to ...

In the autumn of 1921, a Norwegian trapper called Georg Nilsen went polar bear hunting on the island of Spitsbergen, high in the Arctic Circle. He promised he would be back for Christmas, but he was ...