A town so isolated from the world that residents are prohibited from owning cats is a claim that has been online since at least October 2022. It's been shared across a number of social media platforms ...

A drone view of the Esmarkbreen glacier on Spitsbergen island in Norway HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news ...

Norway is expanding oil drilling operations farther north into the Arctic. Environmentalists are concerned about the fragile Arctic ecosystem, and campaigners worry relations with Russia will ...

Tired of the divisiveness in the United States? You’re not alone. A whopping 2,909 Americans gave up their citizenship in the first three months of 2020 — faster than ever before, according to ...

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...

"We are losing the Svalbard we know. We are losing the Arctic as we know it." Icebergs float like doomed islands past the small boat as it makes its way through a fjord filled with the slush of a ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has rejected Russian accusations of violating the terms of an international treaty regulating activities on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, as a diplomatic spat over ...

Grim the Finnish Lapphund lives in Svalbard, Norway, with his owner Cecilia Blomdahl Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Walking the dog can be such a hassle. But imagine having to put on multiple North Pole temperature-resistant layers, grab your rifle in case of ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news agency NTB after Russia on Friday had summoned the Norwegian ambassador ...