Arctic polar bear near Svalbard by Trine Lise Sviggum Helgerud via SWNS Polar bears are in better physical health than they were 25 years ago, despite the decrease in sea ice, reveals new research. The well-being of the iconic white mammals living around the Norwegian island of Svalbard has improved in the face of climate … Read more
The M/F Vargsund – credit, Finnmark county administration An all-electric passenger/car ferry in northern Norway has proven that brain-disabling cold can’t affect its service, despite running entirely on batteries. Whatever technology was encased within the batteries of our parents’ cars that would see them suffer in the cold is not what powers the M/F Vargsund, which … Read more
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen holds a press conference in the Mirror Hall at the Prime Minister’s Office, at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 13, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Greenland pivot, saying the country is prepared to hold talks with … Read more
The LKAB facility in Kiruna, Sweden. The company said on Jan. 12 that it found Europe’s biggest known deposit of rare earth elements there. Jonas Ekstromer | Afp | Getty Images The ripple effects from Europe’s growing appetite for raw materials extend all the way to Sweden’s far north. Thousands of residents and buildings are … Read more
Polar bear with adopted cub – Credit: Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill / Polar Bears International A wild female polar bear was recently filmed with a cub that’s not her own: a notably rare behavior that’s been determined to be an adoption. It was filmed during the annual polar bear migration along Canada’s Western Hudson … Read more
The submersible Fendouzhe being deployed off a Chinese icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean. Credit: Courtesy of the Fendouzhe Research Team One of the most remote and unexplored parts of the planet has been visited by a submersible crewed by Chinese geophysicists and marine scientists for the first time ever. Having been researched from the surface … Read more
Traditional painted houses overlooking sea ice in the Old Nuuk district near the Sermitsiaq mountain in Nuuk, Greenland, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A global scramble to exploit the Arctic’s untapped resources appears to be kicking into overdrive. In a push to break China’s mineral dominance, countries around the … Read more