The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

A Trump annexation effort would likely start in the North. It’s time to take the possibility seriously and have a hard ...

Arctic lodges offer a mix of frontier landscapes and fire-lit comfort that feels both adventurous and surprisingly accessible ...

The quiet archipelago of Svalbard has ice-capped mountains and rows of little homes as far as the eye can see. It is also at the center of geopolitical tensions between Norway and Russia. The Søre ...

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway -- A cruise line employee was injured in a polar bear attack Saturday on an Arctic archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, according to local authorities. The man ...

(CNN) — The last piece of privately-owned land in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard is up for sale for a cool 300 million euros ($324 million). Spanning 14,830 acres (23.2 square miles), the land has ...

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who ...