Norway's Svalbard Airport, built on an unstable permafrost foundation, is the world's northernmost airport with scheduled ...

When Svalbard Airport, world’s northernmost destination for scheduled commercial flights, was built, no one expected the ...

When the 2,300-meter-long runway was built in the early 1970s, at Longyearbyen, no one expected that it would start to melt. ...

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

Since covid brought the world to a standstill in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be.

A recent UN report highlights alarming melting rates of glaciers, which could in turn jeopardise water security for billions ...

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists ...

Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, around 2 billion people downstream depend on mountains for freshwater resou ...