Reindeer eat grass in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway, June 20, 2024. As the world's northernmost permanent settlement, Ny-Alesund has four months of continuous daylight and four months of lasting ...

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A polar bear sits on the Hudson Bay next to a hole in the ice waiting for a meal on Nov. 15, 2007, outside Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Getty Images People living in the Arctic settlement of ...

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In one of the world's northernmost settlements, several research facilities are under threat from tourists' mobile devices, which have caused significantly more disruption since the introduction of 5G ...

Telenor revealed it has activated a mobile network in Norway’s last unconnected settlement of Ny-Alesund, in a bid to improve safety for citizens and open up opportunities for enhanced research and ...

OSLO -- Polar research is becoming increasingly important in addressing the challenges brought about by global climate change, He Fang, lead of China's Arctic Yellow River Station, told Xinhua in a ...

In Svalbard, there's a village where the atmosphere is ultra-clean, Wi-Fi is banned, and all buildings go unlocked in case you need to hide from polar bears – but as Anna Filipova discovered, big ...

In the Arctic Ocean, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, lies Ny-Ålesund, the most northerly settlement in the world. Once a mining town, this island town on the Norwegian Svalbard ...