Northern Lights Destinations: Places, Conditions and Different Ways to Experience the Sky
There is a lovely moment on an aurora night when everyone stops checking their phone and simply looks up. Choosing where to travel can help...
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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 Glacier Comparisons: What the Historic and 2002 Photographs Reveal
At first, the mountains make these photographs look familiar. Then your eye reaches the waterline, and the difference becomes clear: places...
Norway’s Nature House: A Cob Home Inside a Glass Dome
A glass dome on a snowy Norwegian island sounds like the setting for a fairy tale. Inside this one, the details are delightfully domestic: ...
How an Igloo Slows Heat Loss: Snow, Air and Shelter
A shelter made of snow seems an unlikely place to warm up. Yet an igloo works because snow is much more than frozen water: it also contains...
A Wolf-Shaped Aurora: Marja-Terttu Karlsson’s Remarkable Photograph
First you see the green sweep of the northern lights. Then a pointed muzzle, an arched back and what looks remarkably like an animal boundi...
Tomi Rantanen’s Inari Aurora Time-Lapse: A Lake Beneath a Moving Sky
The boat stays still. The lake catches the colour. Above them, the northern lights seem to paint a new sky every few seconds. Tomi Rantanen...
Horacio Llorens Beneath the Northern Lights: An Arctic Night Flight
An illuminated paraglider wing hangs beneath a sweep of green light. The pilot looks tiny against the sky, and that difference in scale is ...