Believe it or not, many people live just fine within polar bear territory. Residents in Churchill, Canada, for example, coexist successfully with polar bears that often pass right through the town!

The study found that from 1870 to 2014, there were 73 confirmed polar bear attacks in five countries with territory abutting the Arctic Ocean: the United States, Norway, Canada, Russia and Denmark.

marking at least the second fatal polar bear attack since last year. The attack took place Thursday at the outpost on Brevoort Island, in Canada's far northeastern Nunavut territory, said Nasittuq ...

Three tropical coral islands in the South Pacific make up the New Zealand territory of Tokelau ... research outpost and a local population of polar bears, and is partially covered by glaciers.

It’s crazy to think that in Svalbard, they don’t allow people to step into polar bear territory without a gun, and here they’re forcing hikers to expose themselves to danger by not carrying ...

bringing them closer to polar bear territory. Photograph By John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk, Nat Geo Image collection Similarly, melting sea ice in the Arctic could drive polar bears (Ursus ...

A polar bear chased several residents around ... represent ongoing safety concerns for communities within polar bear territory. Joseph Jessup McDermott, executive director of the Alaska Nannut ...

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 ...

polar bears and brown bears may have shared territory and mated. Shapiro, along with Kristin Laidre (a researcher at the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington), also used whole ...