Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the ...

The polar bear alert team's vehicles are gathering outside, trying to move a bear away from town. "If climate change continues," muses Tee's classmate Charlie, "the polar bears might just stop ...

Don't walk alone at night. Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world. Every year, the Hudson Bay - on the western edge of which the town is perched - thaws, and forces the bears on ...

Moments later, a bear galloped away from town, with a patrol unit ... the village of Kaktovik in northern Alaska. They had the opposite problem — so many polar bears that no one dared go outside.

The nation’s northernmost town — Utqiagvik, Alaska — is about to descend into ... leading to a prolonged “polar night.” The sun will set at 1:27 p.m. local time on Nov.

Because we live near polar bears, I'm encouraged to carry a rifle whenever I leave town. I've always been drawn ... and parts of Alaska and Greenland — surrounding the north geomagnetic pole.

Because we live near polar bears, I'm encouraged to carry a rifle whenever I leave town. I've always been drawn to nature's beauty ... northern Canada, and parts of Alaska and Greenland — surrounding ...

potentially unlocking alternatives to harmful “forever chemicals” used in ice-resistant coatings today Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals ...