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Léa Zinsli
On March 8th, the community in Longyearbyen gathered at the Svalbard Museum to celebrate International Women’s Day, with speeches, a discussion panel, and music from a local choir.
On March 8th, the people of Longyearbyen came together to celebrate the annual return of the sun, a cherished moment after the long polar night.
The Svalbard rock ptarmigan is a master of camouflage in the Arctic, adapting its plumage to blend seamlessly with the snowy landscapes.
Lisa Scherk
Last Friday, on International Polar Bear Day, Trade Secret had its Arctic premiere in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Rosamaria Kubny
Caribou use collective experience to flexibly adapt their migrations to changing winter conditions.
Marcel Schütz
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault carried out its first deposit event of 2026 this week.
Climate change is hitting the Arctic particularly hard. Around the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the annually ice-free period in the Barents Sea has lengthened dramatically since the 1980s.
While large parts of Scandinavia, northwestern Russia, and Siberia experienced their coldest January in many years, the High North revealed a very different side.
Heiner Kubny
An extraordinary heat event in 2003 profoundly and permanently changed the marine ecosystem off Greenland.
An adult male polar bear can lose or gain up to 60 kilograms of body weight within just a few days - an amount equivalent to the body weight of an average adult human.
