Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
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The Arctic: Sea Ice, Wildlife & Northern Skies
Explore Arctic sea ice, snowy landscapes and wildlife through stories and photography from the far north. Follow related collections on northern lights, winter weather and the places shaped by polar conditions.
Svalbard Glaciers Then and Now: Christian Åslund’s Repeat Photographs
The mountains in each pair of pictures are the same. The ice is not. In 2002 the Swedish photographer Christian Åslund travelled to Svalbar...
Nature House in Arctic Norway: A Cob Home Inside a Glass Geodesic Dome
On the island of Sandhornøya in northern Norway, north of the Arctic Circle, a family lives in a cob house wrapped inside a glass geodesic ...
How an Igloo Keeps You Warm: Snow Insulation, Cold Traps and Inuit Design
Outside, the air can fall to −45 °C. Inside a well-built igloo warmed by nothing more than the people sleeping in it, the temperature can s...
Wolf-Shaped Northern Lights: Marja-Terttu Karlsson’s Pajala Photograph
First you see the green sweep of the northern lights. Then a pointed muzzle, an arched back and what looks remarkably like a wolf bounding a...
Inari Northern Lights Time-Lapse by Tomi Rantanen, Finnish Lapland
A small boat sits on a dark lake while green and violet curtains of light ripple overhead. Finnish photographer Tomi Rantanen spent the aut...
Horacio Llorens Paramotors Beneath the Northern Lights in Tromsø
Spanish paraglider Horacio Llorens has flown over deserts, mountains and the Himalayas, but in January 2016 he took his wing somewhere new: ...
Tiina Törmänen’s Arctic Photos: Northern Lights and Snowy Forests
Finnish photographer Tiina Törmänen has spent more than 25 years photographing the far north: snow-loaded trees, northern lights over froze...
If All the Ice Melted: Sea-Level Rise Maps and the Science Behind Them
Earth still holds more than five million cubic miles of ice. If every bit of it on land melted, the oceans would climb by roughly 65 to 70 ...
Midnight Sun in the Arctic: Where and When the Sun Never Sets
It is a minute past midnight in Longyearbyen, and the painted wooden houses of Svalbard glow in full sunshine. North of the Arctic Circle, ...
Svalbard Travel Guide: Arctic Seasons, Settlements and Wildlife
Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between 74° and 81° north, roughly halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Glaciers cover ab...
Fox Grom’s Siberian Huskies on a Mirror-Like Frozen Lake in Murmansk
Russian photographer Fox Grom found a scene that looks like a trick: his Siberian huskies trotting across a frozen lake that reflects the c...
Northern Lights in Norway: When and Where to See the Aurora Borealis
Green curtains of light rippling over snowy peaks, doubled in the still water of a fjord: few places on Earth put on a northern lights show...
Duck Rescue in Norway: Ice Bather Saves a Duck Trapped Under Lake Ice
On a grey winter day in Norway, a bearded man stripped down to his swimming shorts and lowered himself into a lake half-covered in ice. A du...
Alex Bellini’s Adrift: The Plan to Live a Year on a Greenland Iceberg
Italian adventurer Alex Bellini has rowed across the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. In 2014 he announced an even stranger plan: to live fo...
Arctic Aerochrome: Daniel Zvereff's Pink Infrared Landscapes
Hillsides glow hot pink and plants turn magenta. Daniel Zvereff made these Arctic photographs on Kodak Aerochrome, a discontinued infrared ...
Split View Mountain Lodge, Norway: Reiulf Ramstad's Timber House on a Slope
Split View Mountain Lodge is a timber holiday home on a snowy slope in Buskerud, southern Norway. Designed by the Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad...
Norefjell Power-Line Flashover: The Glowing ‘Portal’ Beside a Ski Trail
A fierce orange glow pulses among snowy trees beside a ski trail at Norefjell in Norway, and the internet quickly joked that a portal to he...
Would You Give Your Jacket to Johannes? The Oslo Bus Stop Experiment
In February 2014, an 11-year-old boy named Johannes sat alone at a snowy bus stop in Oslo in a thin top and no jacket, telling passers-by t...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Inside the Arctic Backup for World Crops
High on a hillside above Longyearbyen airport in Svalbard, a narrow concrete wedge sticks out of the Arctic permafrost. Behind it, more tha...