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What life is like on Norway's rugged Svalbard Islands, where anyone can move without a visa
If you've always wanted a taste of this Nordic joie de vivre, you're in luck: while there are a few…
Sophie-Claire Hoeller
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A startup wants travelers to live on a cruise ship for 3 years. See what the $181,790 global voyage promises.
GlobeCruises wants to launch a three-year global cruise to 413 ports in April 2025. Its CEO and COO…
Brittany Chang
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Instead of flying, I spent 13 hours on a bus and 3 ferries in the Arctic Circle. Halfway through, I wished I'd bought a plane ticket.
The Arctic Route bus tour brought us through Norway's Arctic Circle. Tons of passengers got seasick…
Anna Staropoli
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Anyone can live and work in Svalbard, a group of Arctic islands, visa-free as long as they don't run out of money and abide by a unique set of rules
See what it's like working in the world's northernmost town, where you can't give birth, bury the d…
Hannah Towey
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A woman's exhausting TikTok reveals what it's like to walk a dog in the world's northernmost town, where it's dark 4 months of the year and you're likely to run into a polar bear
The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard allows anyone from anywhere to move there indefinitely, visa-…
Sophie-Claire Hoeller
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GitHub, the world's largest open-source software site, just had mounds of data stored in the permafrost chamber of an old coal mine deep in an Arctic mountain for 1,000 years
Longyearbyen, Norway, is the world's northernmost town, where 21TB of data is now stored "to preser…
Katie Canales
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The world's 'doomsday seed vault' is built to store every crop on the planet, but the icy area that protects it is at risk
Inger Hanssen-Bauer, the editor of the new report, told CNN that the climate in Longyearbyen is pro…
Aylin Woodward
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A mysterious crunch in Earth's magnetic field created a new type of aurora borealis. A NASA intern discovered it.
The bright, colorful lights of the aurora come from collisions between electrically charged particl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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If the world ends, the Doomsday vault now has over a million types of seed to help humanity start over
The addition of the 60,000 new seeds brings the total number of seed varieties stored in the v…
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I was trapped on a boat in the Arctic for almost 5 months while on a science expedition because of the pandemic — here's what it was like
Our long stay caused severe mental distress for some people on board, and seven of them had to be e…
Molly O'Brien
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Stunning photos reveal what the North Pole really looks like and why Santa would be more likely to live at the South Pole
If Santa lived at the South Pole, he'd also have people to hang out with. The US' Amundsen-Scott So…
Hilary Brueck
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What it's like to live in 24 hours of darkness at the northernmost edge of the civilized world
On all my other trips, I had experienced 20 or so hours of darkness but never the ultimate full 24 …