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 ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

OSLO (Reuters) - An international plan is needed to rescue polar bears and their icy Arctic habitat but its success will hinge on a U.N. deal to fight global warming due to be agreed in December, ...

Another polar bear survey and another bit of bad news. A team of experts has been tracking polar bears around the Arctic islands of Svalbard, Norway and have found birth rates for female polar bears ...

Two wildlife photographers from Turkey have issued an apology for posting a video to social media in which they criticized Native hunters in Nunavut for hunting polar bears. The men, Süha Derbent and ...

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 ...