A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.

Polar bears need fat to survive the harsh Arctic cold; that’s why they eat blubbery seals. Seals, meanwhile, need ice to rest ...

Human-caused climate change made a two-week-long heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland around 2°C hotter and at least 10 times more likely, a rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution has found.

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

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

The fund said companies should be given leeway to target net zero by 2050 based on emission cuts equating to up to 2C of warming on a global scale, rather than 1.5C. This translates to shallower or ...

A protest sign is placed in the Barents Sea near the OMV drilling platform, as Greenpeace activists document Austrian oil operations near Bear Island, Monday, March 7, 2016. The action was part of a ...

In 2016, Norway granted 10 exploration licences in the Barents Sea, including to national champion Statoil, now known as Equinor - Copyright AFP ANDREW CABALLERO ...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, is giving artificial intelligence a key role in protecting its $2 trillion portfolio from climate risk. Norges Bank Investment Management will use ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...