Mathilde Le Moullec and her colleagues have walked more than 2000 kilometres over four field seasons in the high-Arctic Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, all in a quest to count reindeer. She can now ...

Svalbard reindeer live in a place so remote they have actually evolved to become a subspecies. But that remoteness isn't enough to protect them from contaminants from the industrial world. Researchers ...

Norway’s national veterinary institute has determined that both a young polar bear and a walrus found dead on Svalbard were ...

A dead animal found in the high Arctic has given researchers a rare data point in the spread of avian influenza among mammals ...