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.

MAGAZINE; THROUGH THE LENS ... Starving-Polar-Bear Photographer Recalls What Went Wrong. One year later, Cristina Mittermeier explains what she and her team were trying to accomplish with that gut ...

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 new book titled “Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon,” explores the history and myths of polar bears, and features more than 160 illustrations.

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 ...

A photograph supposedly showing a man hand-feeding a polar bear in Russia sometime in the 1970s is frequently shared by historical-picture social media accounts: The seemingly dangerous situation ...

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, ...