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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...