Home to vast, frozen tundra and formidable glaciers, this Norwegian archipelago is a wildlife hotspot like no other. Here are ...

A video captured a polar bear charging at a person in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, forcing them to drop their gun and race away on a snowmobile.

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

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 Svalbard. The agency estimates their population ...

A breathtaking European island is among the rare destinations where visitors can hike and kayak in peace, free from the ...

A midnight wake-up call in the Arctic took a wild turn when a man sprinted for his life from a charging polar bear in Svalbard, Norway, and lived to tell the tale. The heart-stopping moment ...

For any visitor to Svalbard, the chance to see the King of the Arctic in his natural habitat is the stuff of wildlife-spotting dreams. Roughly 3,000 polar bears call Svalbard home — more than ...

The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...