Many years ago, while fishing in Alaska’s Matanuska Valley, I found myself wishing I’d brought along some bear spray. I was hacking through some dense underbrush, finding my way to where it met the ...

Learn how to survive bear encounters in RV There Yet? with our comprehensive guide on using bear spray, hammers, bridges, and lava to escape.

If there’s one thing Brigham Young University bear expert and professor Tom Smith wants nature lovers to know before heading out into the wilderness, it’s that, “you have no business going into bear ...

Finally, to get them to go away, I had to run at them screaming with my bear spray. And then they left." Do not litter or leave food out as you’re hiking or camping. Food and garbage are the No. 1 ...

A 29-year-old male hiking solo in Yellowstone National Park required medical care after sustaining significant but non-life-threatening injuries in a surprise encounter with a bear believed to have ...

Bear spray doesn’t supply “brains in a can” to survive a grizzly attack, but it appears to work a lot better than spraying bullets. That’s the conclusion researchers presented to more than 300 bear ...

A robot punctured a can of bear spray. Now 24 Amazon workers are hospitalized. Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey have been hospitalized after a robot accidentally tore a can of bear repellent ...