Every polar bear counts these days as fewer than 31,000 of them are left on Earth, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Added Gorban, “The shift workers saved its life, the cub had no chance to ...

There Semniuk saw a chained-up sled dog—and a massive polar bear was approaching it. "I had no idea what was going to happen," Semeniuk says. "I was worried for the dog." ...

Stirling characterized the practice of feeding polar bears as a “death sentence,” saying that friendly relationships between dogs and polar bears can only lead to disaster.

Because polar bears live in the freezing regions of the Arctic, far from most humans, they don’t often run into dogs. However, in Churchill, Manitoba, things are quite different.

Dogs weren’t the only animals joining the Final Reckoning crew on location. “We had a few polar-bear-related shutdowns,” reveals McQuarrie, 56. “That was really funny,” recalls Pom ...