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Polar Bear Attacks: Scientists Warn of Fresh Dangers in Warming Arctic

"CHURCHILL, Manitoba -- A polar bear attack in Canada that left two people injured has brought new warnings from scientists of a dangerous rise in human-bear encounters in a warming Arctic."



"The friends had just walked out of the door in the pre-dawn hours after a party when the young polar bear crept up behind them, unheard and unseen.

By the time, the bear was driven off by neighbours wielding a shovel, banging pots and pans, and firing multiple rounds from a shotgun, two people were badly mauled: the young woman who was the original target of the attack and an older male neighbour who tried to come to her rescue."

Suzanne Goldenberg reports for the Guardian November 4, 2013.
 

Source: Guardian, 11/05/2013