From exciting snowmobile tours to cosy cabin retreats, winter is a magical time to visit Svalbard's remote Arctic landscapes. Photograph by Hurtigruten Svalbard With imposing ice caps, rocky islands ...

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 ...

Pyramiden is an abandoned Russian mining town located on a remote island in the Arctic. Thanks to its extreme climate, the town looks eerily similar to how it did when it closed in 1998. Pyramiden now ...

Meanwhile, a village in Finland has been dubbed the official hometown of Father Christmas THERE’S a group of European islands where the sun shines constantly for five months of the year – and anyone ...

The summer before I turned 40 – with my fertility ebbing, as everyone with a vested interest in such things felt the need to remind me – I decided to set sail on the biggest adventure of my life.

An increase in tourists visiting the high Arctic could endanger wildlife. Berlin -- When a polar bear was killed by a tour operator on the remote island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway ...

When it is dark for more than 100 days in the depths of the bone-chilling Arctic winter, even the polar bears want to get into the Svalbar – one of the most northerly pubs in the world. Located in a ...