A polar bear has been shot dead after apparently attempting to attack residents on Norway's Svalbard archipelago. According ...

FILE - A polar bear stands on an ice floe near the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, Friday June 13, 2008. A polar bear attacked a campsite Monday, Aug. 8, 2022 in Norway’s remote Arctic Svalbard ...

That same year, a polar bear was shot dead after it attacked a guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship in Norway. Polar bear numbers are declining as Arctic sea ice continues to melt.

Polar bear attacks are exceedingly rare. Between 1870 and 2014, there were only 73 documented attacks by wild polar bears across Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, and the United States, resulting ...

A polar bear attacked a group of tourists on Friday, killing one person and seriously injuring four, in the Norwegian Arctic island group of Svalbard, an official said.

Then, each 300-pound yearling must make it alone, as the mother goes off to hunt, and mate again. Expert swimmers, with semi-webbed paws to paddle, a polar bear is basically a marine mammal whose ...

The Barentz bar, festooned with a polar bear’s fanged head, is the “northernmost pub in the world.” Sweet shop Fruene creates white chocolate polar bears and is the planet’s ...

A polar bear attacked a group of British campers on Friday, killing a 17-year-old boy and seriously injuring four people camping in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, Norwegian officials ...

A 4-year-old male polar bear was taken to the main town of Spitsbergen for examination. Svalbard belongs to Norway but is located hundreds of kilometres further north on the Arctic Ocean.