A polar bear has been shot dead after it killed a woman and young boy Tuesday afternoon in Alaska. The bear chased "multiple" people before it was fatally shot by a resident during the attack in ...

Polar bear attacks woman on her driveway, husband ‘leaps on top’ to save her - Polar bear shot dead by neighbour in rare attack ...

The mother and baby boy were outside a school when the bear entered the community and mauled the pair at the front entrance of the building on Tuesday Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at ...

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A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes ...

Horatio Chapple, 17, an aspiring UK medical student, who was killed last week when a polar bear rampaged into the tent in which he and his friends were sleeping on a glacier in Svalbard ...

In 2011, a trip-wire designed to alert a group camping near Longyearbyen failed, and a polar bear "reported to be starving and emaciated" killed a 17-year-old British boy and injured four others.

Climate change kills slowly and by proxy ... change is rarely clear—even when an animal is as emaciated as this polar bear. Photographer Paul Nicklen and I are on a mission to capture images ...

If the fight takes place on the African savannah, then the polar bear would be killed because of the heat. In either case, both animals would lose and the winner would be a mysterious third party.

Polar bears are uniquely adapted to survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth. These majestic animals are beautiful, and let’s face it, their cuddly cubs are undeniably adorable.