As of 2021, Churchill, Manitoba, had a population of about 870 permanent human residents. Polar bears used to outnumber people, but the bears’ population has declined steeply in recent years.

What’s the most dangerous part of your daily routine? You might say being rear-ended by an absentminded driver during rush ...

By Gabe Allen A few years back, a particularly imaginative young boy came into Georgina Berg’s kindergarten class in ...

Van Nest is Churchill’s conservation officer, and for several weeks each year, keeping polar bears and people away from each other is his primary occupation. That’s because Churchill ...

Journey to Churchill, known as the polar bear capital of the world. Churchill, Canada, is known as the polar bear capital of the world — for good reason. Each fall, about 1,000 of these fascinating ...

Slugs and cracker shells if you have or a scare pistol." It's the beginning of polar bear season in Churchill, a tiny town on a spit of land jutting into Hudson Bay, and keeping tourists safe from ...

Slugs and cracker shells if you have or a scare pistol.” It's the beginning of polar bear season in Churchill, a tiny town on a spit of land jutting into Hudson Bay, and keeping tourists safe ...

Here in northern Manitoba, a comparable program operates in Churchill, “The Polar Bear Capital of the World.” Churchill is a town utterly of the north. Its gridded blocks of aluminum-sided ...

When mother polar bears nurse their young — as an Associated Press team witnessed on rocks outside of Churchill, Manitoba, the self-proclaimed polar bear capital of the world — what comes out ...

In 1993, Don Shelby and a crew from WCCO embarked on a journey to Churchill, Manitoba in Canada. The trip was sparked by this curiosity: How do people and polar bears live side by side in the same ...

"Can I give you some polar bear advice?" asks Tee, a confident 13-year-old we meet during a visit to a high school in Churchill, Canada. "If there's a bear this close to you," she says as she ...

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