The world's northernmost town is Longyearbyen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The town is 800 miles from the North Pole and one of the most remote human settlements on Earth. Longyearbyen ...

The frozen expanses of the Arctic are fast becoming some of the world’s hotspots. President Donald Trump’s bid for Greenland, and growing Russian and Chinese interest in opening the sea lanes along ...

One of the world's most extreme airports, Norway's Svalbard Airport, is at risk of disappearing. The world's northernmost airport with scheduled commercial flights, Svalbard, is located atop a thick ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In 2014, Mark Sabbatini noticed cracks in ...

Arild Olsen has a clear memory of his first steps on Longyearbyen’s snow two decades ago. “I remember the crisp sound because it was so dry, it was like moving on glass,” says Olsen, who is now the ...

Longyearbyen, Norway, is the northernmost town in the world.ginger_polina_bublik/Shutterstock The world's northernmost town is Longyearbyen in the Norwegian ...