Along with being the northernmost inhabited place in the world, this Norwegian island is home to many polar bears that you'll ...

Let’s face it: Birch Bay’s attempt to unseat the Norwegian town of Sola for the Guinness World Records polar bear dip record was doomed from the start. They are Vikings. We are not. Cold plunging is ...

A polar bear stands on an ice floe near the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in June 2008. (AP Photo/Romas Dabrukas, File) FILE - A polar bear stands on an ice floe near the Norwegian archipelago of ...

As peak season for expedition voyages in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard gets under way, tourist ships are staying hundreds of metres away from polar bears under new rules intended to protect the ...

It was almost like a scene out of a movie as a man dropped everything and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear in Norway. Dramatic video footage captured by Rebecca Baack, who was ...

Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only vague ...

Mother bear with three cubs. Recorded using a remote camera as part of the maternal den research in Svalbard, Norway with Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the San Diego ...

Polar bears on ice in Northern Canada. Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared ...

Polar bears may not be the vicious killers you imagine, but it’s still wise not to get too close. Now you don’t have to, as a team of biologists has captured rare footage of cubs taking their first ...