Running from 2 to 13 February 2026, the exercise is being conducted in the Vestlandet region and includes training designed ...

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Warfare drills are underway in the Arctic as allies step up their presence with maneuvers aimed at securing a strategic gap ...

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...

In Europe's high north, America's NATO allies are practicing hunting for Russian submarines, with Norway, Spain, Germany and ...

Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of ...

As human activity grows in the Arctic, underwater noise is spreading through icy waters, disrupting how many animals communicate.

In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in decline as sea ice, which they depend on to hunt, disappears. That is not the case ...

Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...

The author and his neighbors in Point Lay Alaska had several close encounters with polar bears in the mid-90s.