A neighbor stepped in during the attack and shot the bear several times until ... director of conservation outreach and a staff scientist at Polar Bear International, told CBS News partner CBC.

He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under ... which seemed like a long shot. Then, like a miracle, on the third try the ROV found the camera. We shouted and danced around ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

The victims of a polar bear attack on Tuesday in the remote Alaskan village of Wales include a 24-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son. According to a press release by the Alaska Department of ...

Horatio Chapple, 17, an aspiring UK medical student, who was killed last week when a polar bear rampaged ... said to have punched the bear on the nose before it was shot dead by other members ...

The authorities later claimed to have hunted down and killed the animal, although conservationists said later there was clear evidence they had shot a different bear. Environment Minister Tomas ...