The hikers reported fighting off a brown bear (not the one pictured) about a quarter-mile up Exit Glacier Trail in Kenai Fjords National Park. Photo from National Park Service A bear attack on a Kenai ...

A blast from a 10-ounce aerosol canister of capsicum spray may have saved the life of a backcountry hiker in Glacier National Park on Wednesday afternoon. A 34-year old woman was hiking near Lake ...

"The first specimen of the Glacier Bear, or Blue Bear, of the Mt. St. Elias Alps, ever shown in any zoological park, so far as known, has been received ... from Yakutat, Alaska. This remarkable bear ...

This all too often overlooked Nation Park in Alaska lets you get as up close and personal with brown bears as is humanly safe -- you just have to get there.

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...