A polar bear has been shot dead after apparently attempting to attack residents on Norway's Svalbard archipelago. According to the local authorities on Thursday, the police were told that the polar ...

* New plan needed to save polar bears, Norway says * Depends on tough U.N. climate deal due by end-2009 By John Acher OSLO, March 17 (Reuters) - An international plan is needed to rescue polar bears ...

A woman was injured after she was attacked by a polar bear Monday at a campsite in Norway. A woman was injured after she was attacked by a polar bear Monday at a campsite in Norway. A polar bear ...

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 ...

Drone footage shows polar bears inhabiting an abandoned Soviet-era weather station, highlighting behavioral changes due to climate change. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If being in the land of demented-looking ever-present trolls wasn’t quirky enough, I’ve now entered Norway’s Twilight Zone high above the Arctic Circle. This would be Longyearbyen, the northernmost ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A 38-year-old Dutch man was killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands early on Friday, local authorities said, the first such deadly incident in nine years. 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 ...

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best A polar bear mother and her clingy, but cute, cubs are photographed along the ...