Svalbard News

Journalists and cameramen walk under a gust of cold wind near the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that was officially opened near Longyearbyen on February 26, 2008.

" Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday.

Adventure-seeking cruisers are rushing to see the Arctic before global warming gets a grip.

More pictures here>> Nestled into the rocky waste of plataberget Mountain about Svalbard's airport, the Global Seed Vault is at once startling and innocuous.

Olaf StorA is a burly Norwegian with a white beard and mane much like that of the ice-sculpted polar bear standing on top of the plinth in front of the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen's Lutheran cathedral - writes Peter Kenny .

From hot-spring holidays in Japan to romantic rail journeys through Siberia, snow travel is the way to go.

United Arab Emirates: 4 hours, 11 minutes ago GAC Group has established its latest base on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

The Noorderlicht, a century-old schooner, carried a boatload of artists in waters around Norway's Arctic archipelago.

Researchers studying the effects of global warming in the Arctic region off northern Norway briefed visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday on their research.

LONGYEARBYEN: UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited on Wednesday a vault carved into the Arctic permafrost, filled with samples of the world's most important seeds in case food crops are wiped out by a catastrophe.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has travelled above the Arctic Circle today to experience first-hand the impact of climate change on the fragile region, as fewer than 100 days remain before the start of the United Nations conference where countries will aim to reach a new agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

UN SECRETARY General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday visited a research community in Ny-Aalesund in the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago to see the effects of climate change first-hand, officials said.