Most people imagine a bear encounter as loud and chaotic, yet real encounters unfold with startling speed. A bear reads ...

Other stories of recent bear encounters in Japan come to a more harrowing end. In October, local police in Iwate Prefecture, a region in northeastern Japan, reported that a man was out foraging ...

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 ...

For residents of Akita Prefecture, a largely rural region in northern Japan, opening the front door can be a frightening experience. Last year, some people were confronted by an unexpected visitor: an ...

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 ...