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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear that attacked a skier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island last week has been identified as a young female ...

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NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions and ...

Two tourists from Turkey were in Arctic Bay to document the effects of climate change and to photograph polar bears in the Nunavut territory recently, but wound up in hot water with the locals when ...

In early 1993, the Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson arrived at the most remote settlement in Greenland, a lonely town in the east that is tucked away in the world’s largest fjord system, which ...

There's no shortage of captivating nature docs in which advanced 21st century audiovisual technology allows for breathtakingly close images of magnificent creatures in the wild. But when nonfiction ...

A polar bear was spotted in Iceland for the first time since 2016—and was promptly shot dead by police. Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed seal near its breathing hole on the Greenland ice ...

In the northern corner of the Canadian province of Manitoba lies the small town of Churchill, colloquially known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World." Here, polar bears have become a common part ...

An old woman adopts and raises a polar bear cub which grows up and provides for her even after she has had to send it away to save it from the jealous men of the ...