The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Herding them is the key to Sami culture, and depends on access to wide, open landscapes. Map: The Economist The green ...

Svalbard is the fastest warming place in the world, and even within the Arctic. Leaving as little trace as possible is a ...

Reindeer, often associated with wintry folklore and Arctic landscapes, are emerging as unexpected warriors in the battle ...

Having abandoned the island in 1992, the human population of this extremely remote island was soon replaced by a pack of ...

A tourist season that stretches from October to March has been anything but jolly for some residents of the “Official ...

A recent Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment study cataloged a wide variety of lichens, mosses and liverworts ... the impacts of geese on Arctic breeding grounds, bumble bee foraging behavior ...

Competition for food and nest-building material has become so intense in Canada’s central Arctic that many lowland areas once ... and the Environment study cataloged a wide variety of lichens, mosses ...

Though Svalbard is high in the Arctic, vegetation does grow in lowlands ... During the winter, Svalbard reindeer paw through the snow to get at lichen and plants. But after a rain the water ...