Although there are about 3,000 polar bears in and around Svalbard, it’s possible to go there and never see one. Longyearbyen, which attracts tourists both in summer and during its freezing polar ...

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 ...

From the pristine polar landscapes and hardy Arctic wildlife to the historic wooden trapper cabins that prove humanity’s resilience, Svalbard is ... the elusive polar bear, among many other ...

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 northernmost town on Earth.

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 ...

For the first time polar bear DNA has been isolated from a track left in the snow. A team of French scientists working in partnership with conservation organization WWF has for the first time isolated ...

Canada is home to about 17,000 polar bears – about two-thirds of the world's population. But unlike in Svalbard, the species is "in decline", said the BBC. In August, two bears killed a ...

Oskar Strom and I embarked on a mission to document the hunting behaviour of Svalbard’s polar bears for the BBC's Mammals series. Our focus was on bears that have specialized in the unique ...

Svalbard, which has over 1,000 permanent residents, is a place with reindeer casually roaming the streets and polar bear warnings — it couldn't be more different from my old home in Oslo ...