The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to polar bears, caribou and wolves — and may hold vast amounts of crude oil.

Caribou crossing the frozen Porcupine River upstream from Old Crow in the Yukon Territory became trapped when the river’s ice began breaking up. A caribou herd was crossing the frozen Porcupine River ...

In Ivvavik National Park in the Yukon, you can raft Canada's oldest river, Firth, to the Arctic Ocean, though the ancient ...

Gwich’in tribes have asked the Biden administration to establish an Indigenous sacred site in the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where federal law calls for an upcoming oil ...

Two bull caribou of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd swimming across the Kobuk River during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. The herd has been in decline since hitting its peak ...

Indigenous communities in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic have relied on the migratory Porcupine caribou herd for thousands of years, leading to a deep relationship and respect for the caribou. A ...

A polar bear walks along the edge of Kaktovik, the only village within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. (June 2018 file photo: Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) The Native Village of ...

Native to the Arctic region, reindeer are one of the staples for the survival of arctic people, used for transportation, food, and clothing for generations. There are around 7 million reindeer spread ...

The pure, utter wildness of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will overwhelm you. When I was there one June, I watched thousands of caribou migrating purposefully to their birthing grounds on the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental ...

The April 7 front-page article "Warnings on Drilling Reversed" was misleading. Research results obviously were clarified, not "reversed." The original claim was that caribou may be particularly ...

A plane flies over the Porcupine caribou herd on the coastal plain of the remote and pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The pure, utter wildness of the Arctic ...