One of the oldest piping plovers at the park, "Gabby" now has raised 37 chicks to flight. She soon will return to Georgia for ...

Bear Island is a small island nestled between Spitsbergen and the North Cape, at the limits of the Norwegian and Barents Sea.

The first time Chris Tarrant was nearly killed by a bear he had a terrible hangover. 'I lay down and fell asleep by a path in ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service updated rules governing how much Arctic oil drilling can bother the Beaufort Sea’s protected ...

At 66, Robertsen retired after enduring spartan conditions during missions that totalled eight years on two islands of the Svalbard archipelago: Bjornoya (Bear Island ... Bjornoya sits in the middle ...

In the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels for over two ...

In the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels for over two ...

Carl Dunrud steadied himself against the small schooner. It was 1926 and the Yellowstone Park ranger and Wyoming cowboy had a ...

Please. Stop hunting polar bears.” According to local regulations, tourists are not permitted to get close to hunters — including polar bear hunters. “Please respect Inuit subsistence hunting, fishing ...

Polar bear with a plastic cover in its mouth. Image by Celia Kujala via Oceanographic. Celia Kujala’s photograph has been nominated in the Ocean Conservation Photographer of the Year (Impact) category ...

The juncture of lingering bears waiting for freeze-up, the windfall of a bone and blubber cache, and a nearby community eager for economic opportunities, has resulted in a burgeoning bear watching ...