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 ...

The polar night jet, the high-altitude winter wind that circles the Arctic, acts like a flywheel for the cold season in the ...

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the ...

Jørgen Berge and his team of biologists were tooling around in a Svalbard fjord in the middle of the night as part of a two-week-long sea-ice research cruise. Their motorized rubber boat was puttering ...

The countdown to polar night begins slowly. Twelve hours of sunlight a day become 10, then eight. The sunrise slowly creeps later into the morning and sets a little earlier each evening. Minute by ...

After only 30 minutes of daylight, the sun will set on the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska – formerly known as Barrow – for the last time this year on Monday. This isn’t a sign of imposing doom for ...