Heart-stopping video shows a man drop his gun and then narrowly outrun a polar bear in Norway. While at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month, Rebecca Baack captured video from her ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Remote camera footage from Svalbard, Norway, provides the first detailed observations of polar bear cubs emerging from dens. The study highlights altered den ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Polar bears are the ultimate survivors of the Arctic, thriving in temperatures as low ...

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 ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as sea ice dwindles. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay ...

A man jumped onto a polar bear to protect his wife from a rare attack in north-eastern Canada. His neighbour helped him fight off the bear by shooting it several times before it retreated into ...

A new documentary series, directed by a Memorial University researcher, looks closely at the relationship between Inuit and polar bears in the eastern Arctic. (Erinn-Hermsen) An upcoming documentary ...

Female polar bear Nuka has given birth to two cubs in Karlsruhe Zoo. However, the zoo says, the chances are not particularly good that the cubs will survive after their birth in the outside enclosure.

The bear who was shot was the first one seen in Iceland since 2016. Sightings are relatively rare with only 600 recorded in Iceland since the ninth century. Police shot a rare polar bear that they ...

A polar bear that made a rare appearance outside a cottage in a remote Icelandic village was shot by police after being deemed a threat to local residents. The bear was killed on September 19 in ...

Scientists are piecing together when polar bears (Ursus maritimus) may have evolved some of the genes that separate them from brown bears (Ursus arctos). New genomic analysis reveals that they may ...