Svalbard in the News
Traveler's notebook: Just another Arctic day with belugas, bears
As I looked around at our flotilla of zodiacs motoring toward the shore ice, I felt like I was a part of the Normandy invasion.
UD prof delivers keynote at international conference in world's northernmost city
Frederick Nelson, UD professor of geography, delivers the public lecture at the European Conference on Permafrost on June 14.
Polar bear shot after attacking men in tent
A polar bear was killed Thursday after it attacked two men in a tent on the Svalbard Archipelago off northern Norway, news reports said.
Doomsday Seed Vault Keeps the Chill in Chilies
Keeping some of the hottest seeds on earth in one of the coldest places in the world just may be the answer to preserving those crops for future generations.
Red hot chili peppers arrive in sub-zero Arctic Seed Vault
US seed collection delivers valuable varieties of chili peppers and hundreds of sorghum varieties, an essential 'climate ready' crop LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY -A new collection of some of North America's hottest foods-an eclectic range of New World chili peppers-were delivered to the cool Arctic Circle environs of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this ...
Green.view: The connected Arctic
NY ALESUND, a village devoted to scientific research on the island of Spitsbergen, in the high Arctic, seems about as isolated as it is possible to get.
Norway top of the class at the top of the world
The snowmobile trip from Ny-Alesund to the Kongsvegen Glacier is a one-hour ride along a razor-thin coastal plain that straddles the mountains and massive icefields of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.