With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

A Brit is on his way home on the last leg of an extraordinary journey around the world which has taken him 27 years so far ...

The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago ... the head of the Svalbard polar bear program, told AFP. "If they have very little sea ice ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

Svalbard in Norway "The idea is to show as accurately ... who cannot keep a collar on for more than a few minutes. A sedated female polar bear, next to its two cubs, is marked with a fade-away ...

1 of 12 A polar bear watches her cubs on the Hudson Bay in ... scattered across the top of the U.S., Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Russia. Four of these populations are considered to be declining.

NORWAY - With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped ...

Polar bears are great swimmers but they can’t outswim seals. So they hunt them on the Arctic sea ice, waiting for them to come up for air and then pouncing. But as the amount of sea ice decreases due ...

The predator bolted but soon slumped into the snowdrifts, its broad frame motionless beneath the Arctic sky. The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard ...

Svalbard, Norway - With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim, and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon ...