This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For millennia the Kitasoo native people on Canada’s Pacific coast have known this bear and its legend. As the ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

As a scientist with National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places Initiative, she works to protect and restore iconic wildlife populations, including North American black and grizzly bears.

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... pride in China—the only country in which these Asian bears still survive. Now the whole world is watching China ...

Source: National Geographic Bears, too, are adjusting to life in cities as their natural habitat shrinks. According to National Geographic, urban bears are much less active than bears living in ...