To figure out how and why caribou migrate during the winter, Eliezer Gurarie, a professor at the State University of New York, and fellow researchers teamed up with the National Park Service ...

The arctic region is one of the coldest places on earth where human survival in nearly impossible, however, there are a ...

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 ...

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...

Decades of caribou research show the proposed road would disrupt migration, fragment habitat and harm food security in rural Alaska.

LIFE CYCLE: Caribou generally live between eight and 15 years. FEEDING: Although caribou eat a wide variety of foods, winter foraging is limited almost exclusively to ground and arboreal lichens.

Caribou hoofs are strung onto a caribou skin cord and used as rattles. Caribou hides are made into soft, warm clothing. Clothing used in summer has the hair removed. Winter clothing is made with the ...

CARIBOU, Maine (WAGM ... people together to socialize and support vendors and be a meeting place in the winter time,” says Collins. “It felt a little bit last minute but sometimes ...