A British wildlife photographer has captured cool scenes of a polar bear seemingly doing yoga – and then chilling out. Paul Goldstein spotted the agile animal while guiding in the Arctic this month.

Most polar bears live north of the Arctic Circle to the North Pole. This includes Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland and Norway.

I spent a night aboard a ship. I dreamed of sailing to the North Pole to see a polar bear, passing ice caps and wine-dark water along the way. I rescued a capsized boat while sailing through a storm ...

Another strike against the "mistaken for a polar bear" tale is the fact that relocating a bear from North America to the Arctic would be an effort requiring unrealistic international coordination ...

Then, at two in the morning, a crew member woke us up. He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under the midnight sun. We ran to the bow of the boat to see what would happen.

Depending on the source, the "albino brown bear" or "albino grizzly bear" has repeatedly been transported to the Arctic after mistakenly being identified as an out-of-place polar bear.

In these pages, he explores the history of polar obsession, with special attention to the 16th-century interest in reaching the North Pole and the more modern attempts of European explorers to do so.

One disconcerting thing about sightseeing on these frozen Arctic islands at the edge of the polar ice pack: the biggest tourist attractions might be returning your stare. And to them, you're a ...

CHRISTMAS is coming, and when you think of the festive season, you think of the North Pole, cold, white winter with snow, presents (and perhaps Santa Claus).

Polar Preet aims to be first woman to trek unsupported to North Pole Record-breaking adventurer Preet Chandi, 36, of Derby, wants to set off in March and hopes to complete the trek in around 70 days.

Watching dens. In this new study, female polar bears in Svalbard–an archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole–were fitted with GPS satellite collars.The devices recorded their ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.