A polar bear has been shot dead after apparently attempting to attack residents on Norway's Svalbard archipelago. According to the local authorities on Thursday, the police were told that the polar ...

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

A woman was injured after she was attacked by a polar bear Monday at a campsite in Norway. A woman was injured after she was attacked by a polar bear Monday at a campsite in Norway. A polar bear ...

* New plan needed to save polar bears, Norway says * Depends on tough U.N. climate deal due by end-2009 By John Acher OSLO, March 17 (Reuters) - An international plan is needed to rescue polar bears ...

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 ...

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — A polar bear dragged a Czech tourist out of his tent as he slept on a remote Arctic island, clawing his back before being driven away by gunshots. "It was going for my head. I ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A 38-year-old Dutch man was killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands early on Friday, local authorities said, the first such deadly incident in nine years. The ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A polar bear attacked a campsite Monday in Norway’s remote Arctic Svalbard Islands, injuring a French tourist, authorities said, adding that the wounds weren’t ...

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 ...