Colorado’s black bears are beginning to stir with the first signs of spring. While the spring wake-up for bears comes right on schedule, this winter’s historically low snowpack, record high ...

Sometimes you come across a photo of a bear sitting upright near a lake or on a mountain ridge, just staring out over the landscape. For a moment, it looks almost human, like someone who stopped ...

Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species at risk from one another. Between 2011 and 2021, research colleagues and I ...

Vermont’s growing black bear population now spans forests, rural areas, and even the edges of towns. Bears thrive due to adaptable diets, strong habitats, and increasing access to human-related food ...

From Louisiana’s symbolic black bear comeback to Colorado’s million-dollar push to prevent conflicts, human-bear relationships are evolving in surprising ways. Around the world, some bear species are ...

Bear conflicts with humans continue to be a problem in Connecticut despite a small dip in bear home entries last year, according to the 2026 “The State of the Bears,” an annual Department of Energy ...