With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the ...

Keepers at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Highland Wildlife Park made the difficult decision to euthanise Victoria, ...

Despite years of exposure, Svalbard’s polar bears showed no signs of emaciation or ill health, according to the team. The local population has remained stable or even increased slightly ...

Video footage from the Arctic town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows the polar bear charging at a man who fired at him.

The incident took place on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard on April 27, when the man attempted to scare the polar bear away by firing a warning shot, but it charged towards him.

A pioneering mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago involves taking fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...

For now, actions like those may be helping this polar bear population cope with the effects of climate change—but others elsewhere are starving. “All of these pictures show bears that are fat ...