The bear-spray drones are not the only drone-based solution Japan has deployed thus far. In November, Gifu Prefecture deployed barking drones that mimic the sounds of hunting dogs, along with ...

Scientists have developed facial recognition software for bears that they say will decrease maulings. They say using this ...

Haruo Ikegami starts each day at dawn. Just as sunlight interrupts the darkness over his small Hokkaido city, the 76-year-old pulls on his rain boots and dons a bright orange jacket. This is his ...

NAGANO, Japan - Yusuke Sakurai stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the black bear. It was the winter of his second year as a hunter, and the animal was slowly climbing a slope about 40 meters away ...

A man was attacked by a bear in Japan while using a public toilet, local media reported on Friday, in the latest incident in a spate of record-breaking encounters across the country. The 69-year-old ...

A company called Terra Drone writes that it has signed an agreement with Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture to use drones equipped with bear-repellent spray.

We live in a era of nearly universally grim climate projections, when the rapidly changing weather of our world threatens everything from our ability to maintain a home or get insured, to the future ...