On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Czar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

Canadian scientists got a look at polar bears' lives practically through the bears' own eyes.

A large grizzly bear that approached a storage shed recently in a rural Montana, perhaps for a thorough back scratch, was sent running for cover. That’s because an electrified fence had been ...

Over three years, the scientists observed how polar bears are collectively losing an alarming amount of weight. Of the 20 bears studied, 19 lost an average of 46 pounds over three weeks, according ...

At a time when several franchises are making waves in the NFL world with retro throwbacks or cool new alternate jerseys, the Chicago Bears lag woefully behind.

A solo hiker was attacked by a bear at Basher Trail near Anchorage. Injured and unable to walk, they were rescued by helicopter and taken to a hospital.

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear -- one of the most dangerous predators on the planet -- on an Arctic ice floe. First you have to find it and then shoot ...

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear -- one of the most dangerous predators on the planet -- on an Arctic ice ...

Looking at a polar bear, you'd probably assume its fur is white, but you'd be wrong, as it's really just an interesting trick the light plays.