The highly commended shots provide a preview of the 60th annual competition, which spotlights astounding animal behaviors and ...

Marine Biologist and wildlife photographer Audun Rikardsen's Highly Commended photo depicts both sides of this story. Audun was accompanying lifeguards in Norway on an expedition when they discovered ...

A photo of a young polar bear napping on an iceberg has been handed the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. Nima Sarikhani's striking Ice Bed, captured off Norway's Svalbard ...

Svalbard, Norway, is a unique destination where the sun doesn't set for approximately four months a year. This phenomenon, ...

Shreyovi's winning entry, titled In the Spotlight, is of two peafowls silhouetted against a hazy, dreamy canopy of trees at ...

Sarikhani made the image after three days searching for polar bears through thick fog off Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Wildlife photography and nature fans from around the world were invited to ...

Svalbard, Norway, is a unique destination where the sun never sets during summer. This phenomenon, known as the midnight sun, ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard, an archipelago halfway between Norway ...

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a global platform ... several that covers the land area of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. Some scientific models suggest that Svalbard’s glaciers ...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards 2024 has once again brought together the most breathtaking images from our oceans.

Audun is a photographer and full-time professor of biology at the Arctic University of Norway. Growing up in a small fishing community in northern Norway, he developed a lifelong fascination with the ...