For the past 20 years, the United Nations Development Programme has commissioned the Human Development Index, a comprehensive study into all aspects of a country's life. Combining statistics from life expectancy to teenage births to annual income to …
The Svalbard seed bank lies on the edge of the Artic circle roughly 1,300km from the North Pole in the northernmost region of Norway. The purpose of the facility is to act as global back up to the network of gene banks that insure that the most impor…
Prince Harry has flown to Svalbad with 4 injured soldiers and 2 guides to acclimatise before taking part in the first 5 days of a 4 week trek for wounded British servicemen to the North Pole. Three of the team are amputees and the fourth has a broken…