There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal despite speculation that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Chief of Joint Arctic Command, Major General Soren Andersen speaks to members of the Danish and French armed forces ...

Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of ...

Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic archipelago, is under growing international attention as speculation rises that the United States or Russia may covet its strategic location. Residents of Longyearbyen, ...

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway -- A cruise line employee was injured in a polar bear attack Saturday on an Arctic archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, according to local authorities. The man ...

Former chief of defence staff Tom Lawson argues that decades of Arctic sovereignty rhetoric without adequate investment have left Canada vulnerable, as melting ice opens new shipping routes and other ...

A large plot of private land in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago may soon be sold for about €300 million ($330 million), but the deal has raised concerns in Oslo over national security. The ...

“Let them take Svalbard” was the headline on January 13 for the Norwegian tabloid VG. This was actually a distortion of comments by Croatian president Zoran Milanović, giving the misleading impression ...

Gripping the top of the world in an icy embrace, the Arctic Circle stretches from the North Pole to a latitude of 66 degrees, ...

OSLO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland as he says it is the only way for the United States to secure its defence. Denmark and Greenland, an autonomous territory, ...

OSLO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - (This Jan 21 story has been refiled to correct the job title of academic Mathieu Boulegue in paragraph 5) U.S. President Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland as he says it is ...