Beluga whales can disappear beneath Arctic sea ice for long stretches, which makes them far tougher to follow than many other whale species. That is why researchers have increasingly turned to ...

An increasing number of bears had been observed spending more time on land during the summer, plundering birds’ nests in west ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds by bulking up instead of wasting away, according to a new study said. The ...

Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.

Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

Winter of 2026 has been a warning about how extreme weather is becoming a common theme of our lives, be it blistering heat, deep cold, or record snow. It's a reminder that the atmosphere is responding ...

Shortly after her arrival last fall, Amelia Gray met Hudson, and the pair hit it off immediately. They touched their noses together in greeting and chuffed — a soft, breathy, snorting sound ...

If an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan, its centre would reach a temperature of approximately 100 ...

As the Arctic region is transformed by climate change, Russia's presence in Svalbard starts to look like a stroke of ...

In the icy wilderness of Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Barents Sea, polar bears have been entangled in the politics of climate change.

A retired Brisbane lawyer stares down giant jellyfish and killer sharks to conquer the world’s deadliest waters in nothing ...

I first wrote a doom–laden article for the Economist about carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the air in 1987, nearly 40 years ago. I soon realised the effect was real but the alarm was ...