Wildlife biologists often work in harsh environmental conditions and face dangerous animals, but their top job hazard -- helicopter and plane crashes -- could be eliminated by existing technology.

For polar bears, though, it is home. The islands offer refuge in the summer months, when the bears’ other icy habitats start to break apart. In winter and spring, Svalbard becomes a prime seal-hunting ...

French photographer Florian Ledoux had dreamed of seeing a polar bear in the wild since he was 10 years old. That's when he took his first trip to the Arctic: a family vacation in the Finnish Lapland, ...