LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY - JULY 29: A Svalbard reindeer reclines while grazing during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 29, 2020 near Longyearbyen, Norway. The Svalbard reindeer are ...

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the Arctic warms, concern for the plight of Santa’s favorite sleigh pullers is ...

"Of all the subspecies of reindeer found in the high north, the Svalbard reindeer has the most inbreeding and the lowest genetic diversity," says Nicolas Dussex, a postdoc at Norwegian University of ...

Kelly meets Cecilia Blomdahl, the author behind "Life On Svalbard," the New York Times-bestselling book about living on a remote island near the North Pole. Cecilia dials-in from Svalbard, and shares ...

The North Pole is not what it once was. The Arctic is the area on the globe where temperatures are rising the fastest. On Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, this entails extended ...

A research team is studying how expanding populations of two local herbivores -- reindeer and geese -- on Svalbard will impact the future of the ecosystem on the islands. In the frigid seas halfway ...

Reindeer living on the Arctic island of Svalbard are getting smaller - and scientists say climate change may be the cause. Scientists from Britain and Norway have found that adult Svalbard reindeer ...

Norwegian reindeer have plenty of time to join in reindeer games. When the sun stays up around the clock during the Arctic summer, the reindeer ditch their daily routines for a life cycle that better ...

I live in Earth's northernmost town, Longyearbyen, which is about 650 miles from the North Pole. We experience more than 24 hours of total darkness for months each year during polar night. In my ...