Pregnant polar bear females usually enter the den in late autumn and remain there throughout the winter. They don't eat ...

Dutch explorers first discovered Bear Island in the late 16th century and ... which is one of the most southern points in Svalbard and is rarely accessible to the white bears via Arctic sea ...

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 ...