It's late morning on board the MS Trollfjord when the announcement comes through: "Land in sight!" Welcome news after sailing 523 nautical miles - 970 kilometres - the distance between Honningsvag and ...

MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS Correspondent Vitaly Korneyev/. Most Russians have heard at least something about Spitsbergen - a cold Arctic archipelago. The name is associated with the vast snowy ...

HX has announced significant refurbishments for two of its most popular smaller ships, MS Fram and MS Spitsbergen. The company is investing more than €7 (approximately $7.2) million for the upgrades.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault sits 130 meters inside a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen ...

Perhaps it's because of all the Nobel prizes they dish out, or because they have utilised their reserves of North Sea oil so much more judiciously than the UK, but I trust Norwegians. That's why when ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

For years, methane emissions from the seabed have been observed in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. The assumption that the warming of seawater by climate change is responsible for the release of ...

A Dutch polar expedition to Spitsbergen to study the effects of climate change is being scuppered by the presence of hungry polar bears, broadcaster NOS reports. The polar bears have been trapped ...

ABOARD THE FRAM -- Standing at the bow of one of expedition cruising's hardiest ships as it crunches northward through a carpet of ice, Cecilia Donnelly is almost giggly with excitement. And who can ...

ST. PETERSBURG, December 13. /TASS/. The Clean Arctic federal project plans to begin a cleanup mission on Spitsbergen in spring, 2023, the project's COB Ruslan Gubaidullin told TASS. "From May, we ...