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

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they hunt seals, their primary source of energy. Bears often wait beside breathing ...

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 ...

"Nutritional stress does play a role. It's just that it doesn't appear to be the role that we thought it was, just driving ...

Polar bears are showing up near Arctic communities more often, and headlines suggesting they are “hunting humans” have spread quickly across social media. The reality is far less dramatic but still ...

Humans are social by design. Rising isolation from remote life clashes with our biology, weakening health and community in ways solitary species do not face.

As clashes between people and black bears continue to escalate, Colorado is calling on communities to help fix the problem.