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

NORWAY — With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

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 ...

OSLO - A pioneering research mission is underway in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the impact of pollutants ...

At a wildlife center in San Diego, caretakers of a black bear cub are using extraordinary measures to keep him from becoming reliant on humans, including donning masks and vintage fur coats.

Will we soon need another word, de-Greenlandisation? We know there’s trouble with polar bear habitat (the polar bear is also known as white bear, nanook, sea bear and ice bear). We also know ...