PBI also is expanding the “Polar Bear Safe Community” program – initially tested in Churchill – to Ontario. These communities work to keep bears out of towns by reducing food sources and food smells, ...

The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.

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.

Polar bears have come to be known as climate change's ultimate victim, but in some places, they're still a menace to humans. Ariadne Van Zandbergen / Alamy This article is from Hakai Magazine, an ...

A photo of a polar bear sleeping in a bed of flowers in the Arctic won the 2024 Nature Photography Contest, the competition announced in March 2025. Taken by photographer Christopher Paetkau, the ...

A polar bear almost fell through a woman's ceiling in Newfoundland, Canada, after it climbed onto her roof. The predator had been wandering on the roof in St Anthony without homeowner Bobbi ...

A polar bear that had meandered into Madeleine-Centre, Quebec (which is only about 200 miles from the Maine border, as the crow flies) was killed by Canadian authorities. ... He has written 12 outdoor ...

H5N1 bird flu strain spreading to other mammals across U.S. 03:19 Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of poultry birds and thousands of wild birds in the U.S. alone has now killed a polar ...

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

PBI also is expanding the “Polar Bear Safe Community” program – initially tested in Churchill – to Ontario. These communities work to keep bears out of towns by reducing food sources and food smells, ...