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Polar bear live camera!

To ease your Monday ;-) If the beginning of the week is stressing you, or social distancing is making you feel bored, check out these...

Iceland

as a post-pandemic travel destination Around this time of the year, tourists would go hunting for Northern Lights hoping to live the...

Melting Arctic:

What does it mean for the rest of the world? The Arctic territories have recently registered concerning temperatures, being the warmest...

Who calls the Arctic Home?

Greenland is also known as “kalaallit nunaat”, which means “the Land of People”, although it's hard to imagine life at -50°C . It's...

Whales like to change music

Blue whales are the world's largest animals and their vocalizations are among the most mysterious and fascinating facts of the natural...

Biodiversity under the ice!

Take a peek inside the seed vault that is designed to protect the world’s plant life. The Norwegian seed bank is designed to protect the...

Double tragedy

A young polar bear was shot after killing a man in Svalbard The attack occurred at a campsite near Longyearbyen, the main town of the...

The biggest explosion, in the Arctic

Russia declassified footage of 'Tsar Bomba', the most powerful nuclear bomb in history. In October 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the...

Steaming Svalbard

Recently, Norway's Arctic Archipelago Svalbard recorded its highest-ever temperature, the country's meteorological institute reported....

Ice Bubbles

Everything - even if it appears to be insignificant - connects to larger aspects of our Earth. Year after year, as autumn in Alaska is...

Do you know your ‘bergy bits’ from your ‘growlers’?

We all know they are big and beautiful, but how do we classify an iceberg, and its descendants? Now, how would you call the B-15 - the...

Grounded in Svalbard!

Second attempt to remove grounded fishing vessel underway in northern Svalbard We all make mistakes! It can happen to the best, and this...

Keeping the Arctic cool

Could sand spread on sea ice help keep the Arctic cool? We know that world-wide temperatures are increasing, we know sea levels are...

The biggest Iceberg

B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recordediceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres ...

Arctic Ocean Remapped

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic is the northernmost...

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