A polar bear has killed a man in Norway's Arctic Spitsbergen island, local officials say. The attack occurred at a campsite near Longyearbyen, the main town of the island in the Svalbard archipelago.

A short film produced during a photographic expedition of the Svalbard Archipelago It takes the natural highlights of the expedition and includes Bråsvellbreen Storøya Alkefjellet polar bears ...

Svalbard consists of five main islands, Spitsbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya and Barentsøya, and the ‘outlier’ Bjørnøya (Bear Island). It is a land of surging glaciers, vast fjords and ...

The tiny town on a polar bear inhabited island in the high Arctic is not as difficult to get to from Manchester as you might ...

An image capturing a polar bear with plastic hanging from its jaws has been shortlisted for the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award. The image, taken on Kiepert Island in the Svalbard ...

Police say Popov went to Svalbard to kill himself ... Europe's northernmost country Polar bear killed in tourist encounter He was arrested close to the bank on the island of Spitsbergen following ...