LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY - JULY 29: A Svalbard reindeer reclines while grazing during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 29, 2020 near Longyearbyen, Norway. The Svalbard reindeer are ...

Mathilde Le Moullec and her colleagues have walked more than 2000 kilometres over four field seasons in the high-Arctic Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, all in a quest to count reindeer. She can now ...

More than 200 reindeer carcasses have been found in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard this year, and researchers are blaming climate change. According to scientists in the region, the reindeer ...

The North Pole is not what it once was. The Arctic is the area on the globe where temperatures are rising the fastest. On Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, this entails extended ...

Kelly meets Cecilia Blomdahl, the author behind "Life On Svalbard," the New York Times-bestselling book about living on a remote island near the North Pole. Cecilia dials-in from Svalbard, and shares ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the Arctic warms, concern for the plight of Santa’s favorite sleigh pullers is ...

Across the world, reindeer and caribou populations are in decline, under the pressures of a changing climate and human encroachment. One estimate reckons their numbers have fallen by as much as 40 ...

The wild Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) seems to be on the path to recovery following near extinction in the early 20th century. Now, some 22,000 Svalbard reindeer are estimated ...

Imagine trudging through an Arctic winter where temperatures drop well below –30 °C and daylight disappears for months. Now ...

It’s a frigid Tuesday morning in April, and Steve Albon is riding on the back seat of a snowmobile below white peaks on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. He ...

Norwegian reindeer have plenty of time to join in reindeer games. When the sun stays up around the clock during the Arctic summer, the reindeer ditch their daily routines for a life cycle that better ...

I live in Earth's northernmost town, Longyearbyen, which is about 650 miles from the North Pole. We experience more than 24 hours of total darkness for months each year during polar night. In my ...