When the Arctic was a war zone
The media today seems to get a thrill out of announcing that war is around the corner in the Arctic.…
U.N. Secretary General visit to Svalbard will focus on climate change
At the end of August, United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon will visit Svalbard on a fact-finding mission to learn…
Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault safeguards the world’s crops
While the Arctic is seen primarily as a place to harvest the earth’s resources, it is also the site of…