From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new report has found unprecedented temperature rises and significant loss of snow and ice in the Arctic, a region now described as “warming far faster than the rest of the planet”. The annual Arctic ...

If 2025 was the year that climate change was supposed to take a back seat to more pressing matters, then there’s one part of the planet that didn’t get the memo. On Tuesday, the U.S. National Oceanic ...

Explore the Lofoten Islands, a stunning Arctic archipelago in Northern Norway. Captured in ultra-high-definition, this aerial footage reveals dramatic fjords, snowy peaks, turquoise waters, and ...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region. The Inuit of the far north helped ...

It's been a busy few weeks up on the windswept Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya: people, earthmoving trucks, shipping containers, temporary housing, heavy-lift aircraft, helicopters, cargo ships.

During the summer of 2024, six weeks of record-smashing heat led to a record-obliterating amount of ice melting on the islands of Svalbard in the Arctic. By the end of the summer, 1 per cent of all ...

Seabourn's new "Pole to Pole: Grand Expedition" cruise will sail from the Arctic to the Antarctic in a single 94-day voyage in 2027. The itinerary includes stops in 14 countries and territories, ...

This guest essay is one of three we have published to mark the centenary of the Svalbard Treaty coming into force on August 14th 1925. The others are by John Bolton and Mikhail Komin. FOR MORE than ...

Seabourn is offering the trip of a lifetime. The line’s new “Pole to Pole: Grand Expedition” cruise will journey from the high Arctic to Antarctica, covering more than 20,500 nautical miles over the ...

NASA satellites looked down on huge cracks forming in sea ice in Canada's far north. The Amundsen Gulf is named after Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who, in the early 1900s, embarked on a voyage ...

OSLO, June 16 (Reuters) - Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the ...