Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic archipelago, is under growing international attention as speculation rises that the United ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

A bunker hidden in the Arctic might sound like somewhere a Bond villain would hide out, but the real-life 'Doomsday Vault' actually serves a very serious purpose.

From an iconic mountain retreat to a beach district sealed by war, these seven former high-society hotspots show how quickly prestige can vanish—and what’s left behind when the crowds move on.

The Ice Memory Foundation has inaugurated the first-ever sanctuary in Antarctica for storing mountain ice cores, safeguarding centuries of climatic history.

Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

Yet the mood among China’s Arctic researchers was subdued as they gathered in early February for two conferences in Tromso in northern Norway. At the annual China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre ...

Quark Expeditions made history in 1991 when it became the first cruise line to take tourists to the North Pole. Since then, it has become a world leader in polar expeditions. “It’s all we do,” its ...

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...