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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under the midnight sun. We ran to the bow of the boat ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Then the polar bear appears. She’s big, maybe 500 pounds, trailed by a single cub. They’ve just jumped into ...