Signs emblazoned with the silhouette of a polar bear warn pedestrians not to walk in certain areas around town and on the banks of the Churchill River. People leave their cars, ...

Michael Ginzburg was 20 when he met his first polar bear. It was October 2008, and Ginzburg—a student at the time—was aboard a small research vessel northwest of the Svalbard archipelago when ...

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. Polar bear ...