However, polar bears are rarely seen on the island, which is one of the most southern points in Svalbard and is rarely accessible to the white bears via Arctic sea ice. For example, in 2019 ...

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the ...

But unlike in Svalbard, the species is "in decline", said the BBC. In August, two bears killed a technician working on Brevoort Island, in the northern Nunavut territory, in an attack that ...

A rock ptarmigan on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. Espen Bergersen The visual ... merging into the snow-patchwork landscape. Two polar bears on an abandoned weather station.

Longyearbyen sits on Svalbard, a remote island archipelago far to the north ... of town to take photos of the signs warning about polar bears (anyone leaving the settlement has to take bear ...