On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

Washington has the Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland under a defence agreement with Denmark. Otherwise, most of its Arctic forces are located across eight bases in Alaska and count ...

Trump's calls for a takeover of Greenland puts open scientific collaboration that is helping our understanding of the threat ...

In the past, whales provided food, oil, and materials for tools. Most historians thought large-scale whale hunting only ...

From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

President Trump wants to annex Greenland. We look at the fight over a different Arctic territory for insights.

A 30-minute stroll across New York's Central Park separates Trump Tower from the American Museum of Natural History. If the US president ever found himself inside the museum he could see the Cape York ...

The world’s largest backup library of crop seeds sits inside an Arctic mountain, but Colorado scientists play a key role in preserving plant diversity. Geoffrey Hawtin, the British Canadian plant ...

Fall in Svalbard slips by quickly, but it’s one of the most revealing times to visit. September marks the shift from endless daylight to longer nights, and with that comes a noticeable change in the ...

Main areas of research are in the sphere of geophysics, including studies of atmosphere, hydrosphere and cryosphere, ecology, biology, paleogeography and polar medicine, Russian Minister of Far East ...

Hurtigruten is unveiling two new Svalbard itineraries for 2026 and beyond. The newly announced offerings, which are either 13 or 17 days long, combine Hurtigruten’s popular Svalbard Line with several ...