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 ...

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

Polar bears are showing up near Arctic communities more often, and headlines suggesting they are “hunting humans” have spread ...

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 ...

In the heart of summer 1967, tragedy struck Glacier National Park. It’s a story that still echoes in bear management ...

The incident happened in Dehradun, and forest officials called it "the first bear attack reported from this area," according to the Times of India. Local residents rushed to help and scared off the ...

Fear of large carnivores such as the grizzly bear is a valid and common sentiment — grizzly attacks can be aggressive and sometimes fatal. However, there is now an emotion that outweighs this fear for ...

Emily Wanderer receives funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation. When a grizzly bear attacked a group of fourth- and fifth-graders in ...