"Imagine turning into a liquid on a hot summer day", writes Willem Van der Bilt. To avoid that, some algae change their body fat. Fat in fossile algae reveal that Svalbard was seven degrees warmer 10,000 years ago.

Professor Camille Li on what leads storms like Brendan or Didrik our way.

The conference Arctic Frontiers in Tromsø gathers politicians, business and scientists on Arctic issues the last week of January. Not in Tromsø? Find the live streams here. ​

In the last interglacial, the sea level rose to ten meters higher than today. For the first time, researchers have now traced the extra water to Antarctica.

The cold and warm climatic phases of the past 2000 years were not, as previously assumed, global phenomena. The climate varied greatly from region to region. That’s according to a study by the University of Bern that has just been published in Nature. In contrast to earlier times, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time.

Around 10,000 years ago, the ice melted away from northern Sweden, ending the ice age in Scandinavia. Ancient shorelines place the last remnants of the ice in the lowlands, not in the mountains.