Icelandic police shot a polar bear near a cottage in northwestern Iceland after consulting the Environment Agency. The bear ...

LONDON — A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being ...

Iceland police shot a polar bear near an elderly woman's cottage, deeming it a threat, after consulting the Environment ...

Polar bears aren’t native to Iceland, though an occasional vagrant arrives from Greenland. So, it was quite a surprise for an ...

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, ...

Sandwiched between Finland and Russia 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Kirkenes rests near the opening of the most viable polar shipping route linking China to Europe. As the sea ice retreats ...

Iceland has a proud tradition in acoustics. The island has given birth to some of the most mesmerising soundscapes from artists over the past decades. Björk, Sigur Ròs, Ólafur Arnalds — all ...

a bear or a dog, sheds light on the lives of long-ago Norse children Julia Binswanger Daily Correspondent Researchers in Iceland have unearthed a rare remnant of the Viking Age—a tiny stone ...

As a result, the northern polar seasonal cap contains a higher concentration of dust than the south polar cap, making the ice less robust. "They're not symmetric seasons," Hansen said. Differences ...

New remains of a 53-million-year-old polar forest have been unearthed near Macquarie Harbor in western Tasmania, unveiling previously unknown ancestral origins of rainforest plants in the southern ...

Iceland, otherwise known as the Land of Fire and Ice, is a small Nordic nation of less than 400,000 permanent residents. Yet its international recognition is outsized, with a robust tourism ...