A pioneering mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago involves taking fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...

They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that has no energy for them,” Dr Jon Aars, the head of the Svalbard polar bear programme, told AFP. “If they have very little sea ice, they ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...