LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — It’s freezing, snowing and so far north that the sun won’t rise again until March, but the 2,000 residents of the world’s most northerly town wish it were much colder. That’s ...

In the Svalbard archipelago, at 78 degrees north latitude, lies Longyearbyen, the northernmost city in the world with a permanent population. This Norwegian settlement, founded in 1906 by American ...

Mark Sabbatini first noticed the cracks in his apartment's concrete walls in 2014. It had been six years since he moved to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far out in the Barents Sea, about halfway ...

Changing weather has brought avalanches to Longyearbyen in Svalbard. But the small Arctic community is fighting the onslaught by relocating large parts of their town. Werner Hoffmann Isolated on the ...

The Norwegian archipelago has warmed by 4°C over the past 30 years. Landslides and thawing permafrost threaten the population ...

Arild Olsen has a clear memory of his first steps on Longyearbyen’s snow two decades ago. “I remember the crisp sound because it was so dry, it was like moving on glass,” says Olsen, who is now the ...

It is, as you might expect, really, really cold up there; the climate is arctic, after all. From November through April, the average highs for Svalbard tend to be between 25 degrees Fahrenheit and 15 ...

A FREEZING and remote town on a Norwegian island has banned dying over Spanish flu fears - because bodies never rot. Longyearbyen is a tiny coal-mining town of 2,000 residents in the remote Svalbard ...

In 2014, Mark Sabbatini noticed cracks in his apartment walls. Then a mysterious bulge appeared in his bedroom and the apartment block’s communal staircase became crooked. “Doors and windows weren’t ...

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Longyearbyen is a tiny coal-mining town of 2,000 residents in the remote Svalbard archipelago of Norway A FREEZING and remote town on a Norwegian island has banned dying over Spanish flu fears - ...