Pregnant female polar bears typically build their dens in snow drifts on land or sea ice around October or November. They give birth in December or early January, then spend the next three to four ...

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

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.

windy and covered in snow and ice. Oooh! I'm off to find a radiator! In the winter, the North and South Poles receive no daylight. A polar bear's skin is actually black. Its thick white fur ...

The predator bolted but soon slumped into the snowdrifts, its broad frame motionless beneath the Arctic sky. The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard ...

They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that has no energy for them,” Jon Aars, the head of the Svalbard polar bear program, told AFP. “If they have very little sea ice, they necessarily ...