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 ...

Smokey Bear is an 8-year-old male with grey and white fur. Tiger is a 14-year-old male with grey and black striped fur. They ...

Polar bears aren't actually white. Their color is determined by the lighting and climate of their surroundings. Following is a transcript of the video. Polar bears aren't actually white.Turns out ...

The white Kermode bear, a rare ursa sacred to local tribes, is now the center of a fierce battle to protect British Columbia’s rainforest. Melissa Groo Very quietly we paddle to shore in a raft ...