New regulations present challenges to wildlife viewing in Svalbard, but they haven’t sent tourism into a deep freeze, says Sarah Marshall.

A holiday in the Arctic that’s more than just searching for polar bears - While polar bears are a big tourist draw, the Arctic has a wealth of wildlife to observe and terrains to explore ...

Learn fascinating arctic fox facts and about their amazing adaptations that help them survive in one of the coldest places on ...

You Can Now Visit Polar Bears in an Electric Tundra Buggy Sure, getting to where the polar bears are is carbon-intensive. But the last mile to visit them is now electric.

Instead of the extreme cold they had prepared for, the team worked bare-handed in the rain, a shocking shift from normal ...

Scientists in Svalbard were shocked to find rain and greenery instead of snow during Arctic winter fieldwork. The event ...

For years, as the world has warmed, the territories of polar bears and grizzly bears have started to overlap. Grizzlies now venture into the Arctic more often. In doing so, they occasionally cross ...

Just after midday, we gripped the worn rope handles of a dogsled as 11 dogs surged across the frozen tundra of Western ...

Shrinking Arctic ice reduces natural habitat for polar bears 02:26. At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and scientists ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the largest land carnivore, the polar bear is closely related to the brown bear.

Just how and when polar bears adapted to the Arctic is still debated. In this study , a team analyzed the genomes of 119 modern polar bears, 135 modern brown bears, and two fossilized polar bears.

You Can Now Visit Polar Bears in an Electric Tundra Buggy ... (1.5 meters) in diameter, which allows the buggy to navigate the uneven terrain of the sub-Arctic with relative ease.