Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of international cooperation, as climate change transforms the region and ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. Researchers took more than 1,000 body measurements ...

“Let them take Svalbard” was the headline on January 13 for the Norwegian tabloid VG. This was actually a distortion of ...

The body conditions of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations around the Norwegian island of Svalbard have improved despite ...

Decades of melting sea ice and increasingly ice-free days in the region have not had the expected health impacts on this ...

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation may be temporary.

Longyearbyen is the biggest settlement on the Norway-administered Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Despite not having a single case of COVID-19 reported so far, Svalbard’s economy has been hit hard by ...

Following two years of travel restrictions, 2022 was a bumper year for travel in Norway. Nowhere was that trend seen more than the Arctic archipelago Svalbard. On the busiest days, the small terminal ...