A giant image of the popular mascot "Kumamon" has been created on grass at a park in Kumamoto City, southwestern Japan. The chubby, red-cheeked black bear promotes the attractions of Kumamoto ...

Following a surge in bear attacks across Japan last year, local governments are ramping up efforts to prevent encounters with the animal, employing measures such as digitally mapping out locations ...

Officials in California announced this week that four individuals were arrested in an insurance scheme that allegedly included one person wearing a bear costume in a staged attack. California is ...

Bear attacks on humans are increasing at an unprecedented rate, with 54 incidents reported nationwide in the four months to July, according to the environment ministry. The figure so far is the ...

A new long-distance hiking trail in Japan will take trekkers through some of the nation's most beautiful, unspoiled nature.

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Sightings of a very large bear in northwest Hokkaido have triggered alarm in remote communities that have become synonymous with the ...

Until bears settle in for the winter, people should remain vigilant on roads, even in urban areas, following a record number of bear sightings in Japan earlier this year. Conventional wisdom suggests ...

A black bear seen wandering in the Calgary community of Woodlands has been euthanized. Officials with Fish and Wildlife set up a trap in nearby Fish Creek Provincial Park on Oct. 26 after the bear ...

People around the world had followed this specific grizzly bear for years. A beloved grizzly bear has been struck and killed by a vehicle in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, officials said.

The Asian black bear in the Western Chugoku Mountains, which span Yamaguchi, Hiroshima and Shimane prefectures, is listed in the Environment Ministry’s Red Data Book as a “locally endangered ...