A polar bear has killed a man in Norway's Arctic Spitsbergen island, local officials say. The attack occurred at a campsite near Longyearbyen, the main town of the island in the Svalbard archipelago.

I think there’s something in the water,” my mom says, gesturing out the window of the Greg Mortimer, Aurora Expeditions’ ...

The abundance of seals, in turn, keeps Svalbard's polar bears fed. Adult bears consume a huge amount of seal blubber, primarily from ringed seals and bearded seals. That food produces the energy ...

Only the hardiest species, such as Svalbard reindeer, polar bears, Svalbard rock ptarmigan and Arctic foxes are seen in winter – they build energy reserves during summer and autumn, building up ...

Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard, an archipelago halfway ... and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the ...

One of the fossilized polar bears helped the team pinpoint the divergence. The first fossil was a Poolepynten jawbone from the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It dates back between 130,000 and ...

This behaviour has opened new horizons for these bears, as they have proven incredibly efficient in hunting the small, Svalbard reindeer. For a behaviour that was thought by many to be isolated ...

Polar bears range across the Arctic Ocean, in parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland and Norway (Svalbard). They can walk on ice or swim long distances to find food or breed – sometimes roaming ...