Jon Aars, a senior scientist with the Norwegian Polar Institute who authored the study, spoke with CBS News and the New York ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and ...

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors ...

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation may be temporary.

Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the population in Svalbard seems to be thriving ...

The last piece of privately-owned land in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard is up for sale for a cool 300 million euros ($324 million). Spanning 14,830 acres (23.2 square miles), the land has ...

The quiet archipelago of Svalbard has ice-capped mountains and rows of little homes as far as the eye can see. It is also at the center of geopolitical tensions between Norway and Russia. The Søre ...

Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...