Today, Svalbard is the warmest place in Norway

On January 8, the only place in Norway that recorded temperatures above zero °C was the far northern archipelago of Svalbard.

Re-freezing the Arctic is costly and dangerous

Researchers warn against geoengineering in the polar regions.

Moscow declares the Barents Observer an 'undesirable organisation'

The newspaper publishes 'anti-Russian materials' that are aimed at 'igniting protest among the people of Northern Russia,' the Russian General Prosecutor says.

Massive explosions near Severomorsk

There is no information made public that can tell what exploded inside the military boundaries south of the headquarters of Russia's Northern Fleet.

Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe, Ben Taub writes.

Moscow hoists Soviet flags at Svalbard

“The tradition has been revived and will live!” Russia's state-owned company Arktikugol has over the last few weeks proudly hoisted Soviet flags in both Pyramiden and Barentsburg.

Svalbard residents on the boycott of Russia, climate change, and search for a new sustainable energy source.

“They shot them in the head and threw them into dug-out pits”: The tragic story of American Finns who perished during Stalin's purges, and how history repeats itself in Russia today.

“Raise our daughter loyal to the cause of the working class”. These were the last words of the Finn Alexander Koskelainen to his wife, when on January 2, 1938, he was arrested by the Stalinist security service NKVD under charges of “agitation and propaganda”. On February 11, 1938, he was shot dead by a firing squad.