A man who “leapt on” a polar bear to save his wife from an attack sustained serious injuries but is expected to fully recover, authorities in Canada’s remote Ontario said. The couple in the ...

Image via Shutterstock There's few things in nature more terrifying than a polar bear. Don't let those nostalgic Coca-Cola ads fool you. These creatures are deadly. You wouldn't want to come across ...

A remote community on the icy shores of Canada's Hudson Bay is struggling to maintain its polar bear population that drives ...

Such bear patrols have long succeeded in reducing conflict. But this week, a polar bear attack killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in Wales, a tiny, remote Alaska whaling village whose bear ...

Alysa McCall, a scientist at Polar Bear International, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attack humans. When an attack occurs, the bear is often hungry ...

but the bear came towards him. A neighbor -- who saw the attack -- sprung into action, grabbed a gun, and shot and killed the bear. Neirer said he is doing okay after the attack and believes that ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a helpful clarification for Australian travelers, who had been warned by their government about Norwegian polar bear attacks. The good-humored ...

"An adult moose is a formidable adversary for anything." A higher-than-usual number of bear attacks have been reported in recent months, with typical estimates putting their odds at 1 in 2.7 million.

Researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.