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The survivor of a bear attack was rescued from a remote mining camp near Nome, Alaska, by a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak crew earlier this month.

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Repeatedly Confronted By A Bear, A Man Is Rescued After He Writes 'SOS' On A Shack

2:20pm July 23, 2021

by Dalia Faheid

A man in Alaska, who said that he had been mauled by a bear and that the animal had returned to his camp and harassed him every night for a week, was rescued by the Coast Guard.

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A Teen Shoves A Bear To Save Her Family's Dogs

5:32pm June 01, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

Video of the terrifying encounter in a Southern California backyard shows Hailey Morinico using both hands to push the bear off a wall and break up the bear vs. dog confrontation.

"Holly" is the winner of this year's Fat Bear Week.

Sports

Stuffed With Sockeye Salmon, 'Holly' Wins 'Fat Bear Week' Heavyweight Title

10:30am October 09, 2019

by Tom Goldman

The annual competition is put on by Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve to choose the fattest bear. This year, Holly beat out Lefty in the championship round, winning more than 80% of the votes.

Bear No. 68 has packed on the pounds needed for a long hibernation.

It's Fat Bear Week In Alaska's Katmai National Park — Time To Fill Out Your Bracket

12:57pm October 06, 2019

by Tom Goldman

Bears preparing for hibernation need to eat as much as they can for the winter. In Alaska, this habit has turned into an Ursine March Madness with bears going head-to-head to see who is the fattest.

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A female Scandinavian brown bear with her cub. Mother bears take care of their young for a year longer, likely due to hunting regulations that protect bears with cubs.

Science

Mother Bears Are Staying With Their Cubs Longer, Study Finds

4:32pm March 27, 2018

by Rebecca Hersher

In many parts of the world, it is illegal to shoot a brown bear with cubs. The restrictions have made mother bears more likely to spend an extra year with their cubs.

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Bears in roadside zoos can suffer in the summer if they don't have the proper conditions, says Barbara J. King.

Bears Can Face Summer Challenges In Roadside Zoos

12:10pm August 17, 2017

by Barbara J. King

Even when the Animal Welfare Act is followed, bears may not live in conditions that many would find reasonable for such large, intelligent animals to flourish, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

Grizzly bear cubs follow their mother in British Columbia, Canada, in 2014. The province has banned trophy hunting of grizzlies beginning at the end of November.

World News

British Columbia Will Ban Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunting

6:17pm August 15, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The policy still allows people to hunt the bears for food but blocks all hunting of grizzlies in the Great Bear Rainforest. Environmental groups are celebrating but concerned about possible loopholes.

National

Colorado Camp Counselor Awakes To Find Bear Biting His Head

4:29pm July 10, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

"The crunching noise was I guess the teeth scraping against the skull as it dug in," said the 19-year-old counselor. Officials say they have trapped and killed the bear they think was responsible.

Rogers hand feeds June, a 300-plus-pound pregnant black bear.

Invisibilia: Should Wild Bears Be Feared Or Befriended?

11:38am June 08, 2017

by Derek Montgomery

A photographer who walks deep into the woods in search of a wild bear wonders if his curiosity will overcome his fear. Can bears and humans co-exist?

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Brown bears play in a pond at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage Glacier, Alaska, in 2009.

Congress Rolls Back Obama-Era Rule On Hunting Bears And Wolves In Alaska

5:04pm March 22, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The Senate voted Tuesday to lift a 2016 ban on certain hunting practices — like trapping and aerial shooting — on national wildlife refuges there. Now the bill heads to President Trump to be signed.