Remarkably, this research essentially suggests that an abundance of clouds — a drop in sunlight — fueled the recent bear attacks in Japan. What’s more is that Japan should expect more of this ...

Polar bear encounters with humans are a regular concern for scientists and communities near polar bear habitats, but new research is showing the bears' reasons for coming in contact with humans might ...

Polar bears are showing up near Arctic communities more often, and headlines suggesting they are “hunting humans” have spread ...

Aromatic attractants like meat caches, campsites, cooking areas, and sled-dog yards also lure them with the reward of food.

Easy food options in the abandoned orchards of Japan’s “ghost villages” are driving encounters with bears, scientists have found in a new study that upends previous beliefs about bear attacks in the ...

We live in a era of nearly universally grim climate projections, when the rapidly changing weather of our world threatens everything from our ability to maintain a home or get insured, to the future ...

A terrifying grizzly bear attack on a school field trip in remote British Columbia has left 11 people injured — two of them critically — and set off a massive search for the sow and her two cubs. The ...