The Alaskan government is renewing a program allowing helicopter hunting of bears and wolves on certain state land.

Despite their endangered species status, the bears are still hunted for their beautiful white furs in Canada, the only country in the world that still permits their hunting after Greenland, Russia, ...

In Wyoming, a black bear over 400 pounds is considered a rare trophy. But back East, it would be puny. Bears there gorge on ...

Hunters across the Mountain State harvested nearly 2,500 bears in 2024, and that number is down slightly from 2023. According to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, hunters in the 2024 ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

Hunters in Virginia reported harvesting 1,423 wild turkeys, 2,702 black bears and 205,759 white-tailed deer during the ...

The Department of Natural Resources will issue 14% more bear hunting licenses and set a 6% higher kill goal for the 2025 ...

During this period, the region’s polar bear population has declined by nearly 50 per cent. The monitoring data shows the ...

Several factors negatively impact polar bear populations, and these include: As our climate warms, the Arctic ice is melting. Polar bears rely on ice for nearly every aspect of their lives, including ...

Polar bears have large, powerful paws perfectly adapted to their arctic environment. They are covered in small, soft bumps called papillae, which provide extra grip and traction on ice. In addition to ...

This finding helps explain how polar bears stay ice-free while hunting in temperatures that can plummet below -40°C. “We measured ice adhesion strength, which is a useful measure of how well ice ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice sticks ...