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The town of Ny-Alesund on the island of Spitsbergen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, is likened to the cleanest air in the world.
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The town of Ny-Alesund on the island of Spitsbergen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, is likened to the cleanest air in the world.
The compass tree has the scientific name Silene acaulis. This is a special plant that can live up to 300 years in the cold Arctic and flourish in harsh conditions.
Information from NRK Television (Norway) made it impossible for people to be shocked: more than 200 starving dead reindeer in the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic region o…
They're already hungry - scientists concluded that.
On Norway's Svalbard peninsula, near the permafrost of the Arctic there is a special energy building.
Longyearbyen is a town with 2,000 inhabitants who mainly rely on coal mining in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, according to Sun.
In these exotic lands, the Sun is so present day and night that people think of the sun rising at midnight.
Spitsbergen Island is the largest island and is also the only place in Norway's Svalbard archipelago.
New research to rebuild the ice level on the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present shows that there has never been a low amount of sea…
This underwater reptile possesses a huge skull and body length of up to 15.24m. Their bait is 4 times stronger than the T-rex tyrant dinosaur.
In an effort to ensure global food security, 10,000 new seeds from around the world were sent to the anti-apocalyptic hatchery in the Arctic.
Biologists have discovered the body of a polar bear who died in a state of
If you have a strong voice and enjoy outdoor work, you can apply for a polar bear search position on a Norwegian island.
Upon reaching an area on Nordaustlandet - the second largest island in Svalbard Islands - Angela Plumb saw a white bear about 7 months old sitting on her mother's back.
Network users are now transmitting a picture of a thin, polar bear looking for food in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.