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 ...

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 ...

With polar bears spending more and more time ashore in the Arctic because of melting sea ice from global warming, the chances of human-wildlife conflicts are growing. That brings in Polar Bears ...

PARK CITY, Utah — In the snowy subarctic wilds of northern Manitoba, the Inuit have a word for polar bears who’ve lost their fear of being around humans: avinnaarjuk, or “nuisance bear.” That’s a ...