Watching a polar bear roam across Arctic tundra sounds like an expedition reserved for wealthy travelers. In practice, a careful traveler can arrange the experience for a cost similar to a mid-range ...

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 ...

Every year, CBC Manitoba's Future 40 showcases some of the brightest young minds and influential change-makers under age 40, who are blazing their own trails to a brighter future for the province. Get ...

The isolated town of Churchill sits on Hudson Bay in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It’s small, but it draws tourists from all over the world because of several unusual attractions, including the ...

Conventional thinking is that bears wander near people when they’re hungry and searching for a bite, but a new study says it’s more likely they just happened to be in the neighbourhood. That’s what ...

Aromatic attractants like meat caches, campsites, cooking areas, and sled-dog yards also lure them with the reward of food.

"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 ...

The Manitoba government has appealed a judge’s decision ordering Natural Resources Minister Ian Bushie to reconsider granting permits to a company that is no longer to offer polar bear tours in large ...

The Kinew government is appealing a court order to revisit its cancellation of permits allowing an ecotourism business to run off-road polar bear tours outside Churchill. The province’s lawyers filed ...

Full-grown bears are by no means immune to danger, however. The authors cite earlier research predicting that the adult male population could decrease by 24% if the ice-free summer season increases to ...

Happy International Polar Bear Day! For 21 years, conservation nonprofit Polar Bears International has celebrated these vulnerable bears with a day of conservation action and learning. Right now, ...