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Fat Bear Week started on Wednesday, October 4, and we can’t wait to find out which bear will be crowned the Fattest Bear by the public. The National Park Service says that Fat Bear Week celebrates the success and survival of the brown bear population. But how do fat bears get so fat anyway? Brown [...]

It’s always wise to have a Plan B (and perhaps a Plan C, D, and E) for emergency communication in the wilderness, especially if you’re heading off alone. But who would have thought that wildlife webcams might save the day?  On a wet and windy day in September, in one of the most remote national [...]

In Survivor 45’s episode 2, team Lulu lost again, Emily lightened up, and it may come as no surprise who went home.

In late September, Disney World got a surprise visit from a black bear. The bear was spotted near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in the Magic Kingdom and led to parts of the park being closed to visitors. Just a few days later, another bear decided to join a family vacation, this time in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.  [...]

Despite “doing everything right”, a Canadian couple and their dog were killed by a grizzly bear in Banff’s backcountry.

One of Bear Grylls’s first big expeditions when he was a schoolboy was a camping and climbing adventure to Mount Snowdon in Snowdonia National Park in Wales. The camping did not go according to plan when the tent collapsed in the middle of the night, leaving Bear and his school friend cold and miserable. However, [...]

Sometimes it’s hard to tell when you can eat something you foraged. Here’s how to identify toxic mushrooms, according to Bear Grylls.

Police officers in the United Kingdom arrested a 16-year-old male in connection with the downing of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree near the historic Hadrian’s Wall in Northern England. 

The new series “The Swarm” is about a struggling humankind forced to take on a swarm of unknown intelligence that lives beneath the ocean.