How to see Katmai's famous brown bears up close—and stay safe How to see Katmai's famous brown bears up close—and stay safe Inside the heroic effort to rescue Masha the bear from Ukraine ...

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 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 ...

Grizzly bear 399 has been killed. Here’s why she mattered. Grizzly bear 399 has been killed. Here’s why she mattered. Why was a grizzly bear hanging out with a wolf pack? Why was a grizzly ...

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 February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the fjord ice, we spotted ...