Labrador mix alerts his owner, a fisheries technician, to the presence of brown bears while he works salmon streams.

We’re near the bear’s den,” Cross whispers. “We need to spread out and move as quietly as possible.” Several days earlier, ...

Guests reach Spirit Bear Lodge by flying from Vancouver to the small airport at Bella Bella (scheduled for 90 minutes but it can take longer), then transfering to a boat for a two-hour journey north ...

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First came the collapse of the Soviet Union, then an economic crisis and now the Russian invasion: Ukraine's population has been dropping for some time. Putin's war has turned the crisis into a ...

Witcher 3 is a beloved game, widely considered a masterpiece. But players who love it should be the first to point out its ...

There’s no doubt that the hikes in Bend are some of the best in Oregon. And the best part? There are TONS of them just in ...

The two friends had hiked New Hampshire’s challenging Mount Washington trail a month ago. They returned and did it again ...

Cochrane residents are hoping to salvage memories of their iconic, reputedly 300-year-old Grandfather Tree that was felled by a powerful wind storm. The white spruce noted for its tentacles-like ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

It stripped the needles from fir and spruce trees across most of northern Maine, killing 7 million acres of trees and costing the state’s forest economy hundreds of millions of dollars.