Polar bears are a key draw for people embarking on sailings to Norwegian-ruled archipelago Svalbard, as they can be observed in their natural Arctic habit. But concerns about interference from humans ...

Polar bears outnumber humans in Svalbard. Polar bears, also known as the King of the Arctic, are not uncommon in the Svalbard archipelago and Barents Sea, according to tourism agency Visit ...

It’s early morning during breakfast on our first full day onboard and already everyone is on the lookout for polar bears. We embarked yesterday in Longyearbyen, Svalbard’s diminutive main town ...

Man drops gun, flees charging polar bear in Norway. Dramatic video captures escape from polar bear in Pyramiden, a town in Norway's archipelago of Svalbard.

Watching dens. In this new study, female polar bears in Svalbard–an archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole–were fitted with GPS satellite collars.The devices recorded their ...

Researchers captured rare footage of polar bear cubs emerging from dens in Svalbard, Norway, using nearly a decade of remote camera data to reveal new insights about den emergence and post ...

Scientists estimate there are around 300 polar bears in the Svalbard archipelago and roughly 2,000 in the broader region stretching from the North Pole to the Barents Sea.

From temperatures sometimes plummeting to below minus 30 (-34.4 Celsius), to polar bears and arctic foxes occasionally roaming local streets, it takes a unique individual to forgo life on the ...