A polar bear chased residents near a school in a small Alaska village last week, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son before another resident shot the bear dead, state troopers said.

WALES, Alaska — A polar bear chased residents of this small Alaskan town before attacking and killing a woman and a child, Alaskan state troopers said. Reports of the bear attack came in Tuesday ...

An image captured off the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a small iceberg after carving a bed in the ice. When you purchase through links on our ...

The town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada is known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.” Tourists go out on the tundra to see them in the wild. Now, as climate change shrinks their natural ...

Study finds polar bears in southeast Greenland hunting on both sea ice and freshwater ice Scientists say bears are distinct from other polar bear populations A group of polar bears clinging to ...

As a longtime Washingtonian, I remember there used to be quite a few frozen custard stores in D.C. One had a polar bear statue near the front of the store. They also had mirror pieces embedded in ...

A polar bear killed a mother and baby in Wales ... The GoFundMe notes that Wales is only accessible via a small passenger plane, and a portion of the funds raised will go toward assisting family ...

"It is fun when you come to these races and they say, ‘Polar Bear who? Who are you guys? Where are you from?’” said the president of the Polar Bear Ski Club, which practices on McCauley ...

On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists warned that trash poses an emerging threat to already-vulnerable polar bear populations as the animals become more reliant on landfills near ...

It was almost like a scene out of a movie as a man dropped everything and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear in Norway ... which was no small task." Polar bears, also ...

Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of about 150 people, just over 100 miles northwest of Nome. Fatal polar bear attacks have been rare in Alaska's recent history. In 1990, a polar bear ...

but polar bear survival, can be directly related to greenhouse gas emissions.” For example, the study noted that each of the hundreds of power plants in the US might make a relatively small ...