Scientists believe it was a lightning strike that likely killed the animals at a site about 33 miles southwest of Delta ...

Fifty-three years ago, an Army helicopter pilot flying over a tundra plateau saw a group of caribou. Thinking something ...

“Particularly the large migratory herds, including the Western Arctic herd, have shown significant drops in population numbers, and they’re not recovering,” Thoman said. “Now it’s not all bad news.

With heavily muscled bodies, skinny legs, and strong hooves that balloon to the size of dinner plates come winter, mountain caribou — the "mountain ecotype" of the woodland caribou — are well adapted ...

For countless millennia, the caribou herds of Northwest Alaska have migrated ... an innkeeper in the Wrangell Mountain ghost town of McCarthy wrote in Alaska’s newspapers a few years back, calling for ...

Teshekpuk Caribou Herd animals graze in June of 2014 in the northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The land around Teshekpuk Lake is considered key habitat for the herd ...

Caribou are found in North America and are native to Alaska. They are wild animals that travel in herds throughout Alaska and Canada. To find enough food, they have to keep moving. Large herds ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to finalize endangered species protection and designate critical habitat for ...

No crowds, unless you count the half-million caribou sharing ... To Travelers When thinking of Alaska, dramatic and exceptional landscapes filled with snowy mountains tend to come to mind, yet ...

Rick Thoman, a climate researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks, edited the report and said the NOAA report card also documents rapid declines in caribou herds. “Particularly the large ...