Home to vast, frozen tundra and formidable glaciers, this Norwegian archipelago is a wildlife hotspot like no other. Here are ...

It shows there is hope.” For the 2022 season, Heide’s mission is to sail back to Svalbard to engage, study and further document blue whales in the Arctic. Hugh Francis Anderson is a freelance ...

Oceanwide Expeditions recently kicked off its 2025 season in the Arctic with a repositioning cruise to Svalbard. Marking the ...

Rikardsen isn’t actually hunting whales, of course ... Meanwhile, on the icy archipelago of Svalbard—north of mainland Norway, science continues even when the sun doesn’t rise.

The researchers have built on this early work to expand their ability to identify different whale species and to conduct real time recording from the fibre optic cables in Svalbard. For this ...

The Svalbard archipelago, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean well north of the Arctic Circle, has been particularly affected by rising water temperatures. For fin whales, the second ...

‘Whales and dolphins are basically the last ... OneWhale is now petitioning Norway’s government to relocate Hvaldimir directly to Svalbard, an archipelago about halfway between the Norwegian ...

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 ...

SVALBARD, Norway — The cruise company’s promotional video starts with a loop of Arctic nature at its most awe-inspiring: a surfacing whale, a lumbering walrus and a polar bear shrouded in mist.

Believed to be 13-14 years old, Strand said the whale is "at an age where his hormones are very high". The closest population of Belugas is however located in the Svalbard archipelago, in Norway's ...