LONDON (AP) — A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

It's dark all 24 hours of the day. Yes, there are polar bears. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, it was minus-1 degrees in Barrow, about 2 degrees warmer than it was in South Bend. Siberia, with its long ...

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 (Ursus maritimus) and their cubs can be found around the Arctic Circle in Alaska, Canada, Greenland (part of Denmark), Norway, Russia, and occasionally Iceland. The coat of a polar ...

Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian leaders to send convicts for labor-camp sentences for the past four to five centuries. There are large expanses of ...

Yes, there are polar bears. (They're at the city zoo.) It was 32 degrees this morning in Novosibirsk. It's the capital of a place called Iceland, for heaven's sake. It was 32 degrees there this ...

Yes, there are polar bears. (They're at the city zoo.) It was 32 degrees this morning in Novosibirsk. It's the capital of a place called Iceland, for heavens sake. And it was 32 degrees there this ...