The summer snows on the Kamchatka Peninsula began ... Most of the 30 bears will probably be killed and those that are not will face the same stresses next year.

The team of geologists on the Kamchatka Peninsula were forced to remain in camp with weapons ready as the ravenous bears - some ten feet tall - roamed around outside. The bears are thought to have ...

which stand 10 feet tall and weigh up to 1,500 pounds, Interfax reported. Rampant fish poaching in the Kamchatka tundra often forces the bears to seek other sources of food, such as garbage.

Viktor Leushkin, a Khailino town elder voiced his concern that the bears had developed a taste for human blood and the government of the Kamchatka Krai province sent out a team of hunters and ...