I'm not sure why the town has kept this tradition, but it's one of many rules that make life in Svalbard different from the mainland. Polar bears are a constant presence ... and parts of Alaska and ...

Most polar bears in Alaska remain with the pack ice ... One of the best places to see polar bears in Canada is the town of Churchill, in Manitoba. The town is often called the “polar bear ...

The de-icing properties of polar bear sebum could fuel new innovations, scientists say, potentially unlocking alternatives to ...

When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way ...

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.

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.

This remote archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is home to the world's northernmost town ... the streets and polar bear warnings — it couldn ...