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, a study said Thursday. The Barents ...

President Donald Trump argues that U.S. security demands the annexation of Greenland from Denmark. There’s no question that Greenland has outsize strategic importance to the United States. The island ...

Adult polar bears around Norway's Svalbard archipelago have become fatter on average over the past two decades even as Arctic sea ice has shrunk, according to a new study. Researchers led by Jon Aars, ...

In the face of sea ice loss, some of the bears on the Norwegian archipelago are gaining weight. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 29, 2026 11:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

The body conditions of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations around the Norwegian island of Svalbard have improved despite sea ice losses, according to research published in Scientific Reports. The ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate ...

As the U.S. attempt to acquire Greenland shakes international affairs, Norwegian media reported on the 21st that Norway has strengthened its vigilance over the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean ...

As the United States continues to refuse to rule out the use of 'military force' to acquire Greenland from Denmark, Norway is tightening its vigilance over the Svalbard archipelago, located in the ...

After all, Trump says that the U.S. needs Greenland to prevent the Russian and Chinese domination of, and military threats from, the Arctic. It is absolutely true that those threats are real. But the ...

Did our AI summary help? High in the Arctic, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the islands of Svalbard occupy a strange legal and geopolitical space. They belong to Norway, yet under ...

Svalbard is the World's last village where a seed vault preserves more than 1.3 million seed samples. Visit Svalbard Have you heard of a place where births and burials are forbidden? Well! That's the ...

There is one place on Earth where immigration rules function differently from anywhere else. Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the High Arctic, allows anyone to live and work there ...