The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related shrub growth.

Maeve was introduced to Bean, the zoo's other caribou, last weekend, and the two caribou are said to get along well.

But they’re diminishing quickly. The Mulchatna caribou herd, located mostly in southwestern Alaska, reached a peak of 200,000 animals in the mid-1990s. It has since suffered catastrophic decline ...

The animals, dozens of them, were dead. The pilot reported what he saw to officials at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The caribou, 48 adults and five calves, were lying in a group.

Visitors and long-time residents alike usually enjoy seeing moose, caribou and bears ... for the University of Alaska Museum, I was thrilled to see these giant animals. However, even more ...

The animals, dozens of them, were dead. The pilot reported what he saw to officials at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The caribou, 48 adults and five calves, were lying in a group.

Maeve arrived in Milwaukee from Alaska on Nov. 6. Last weekend, following the standard quarantine required of all new zoo animals, she was introduced to Bean, the zoo's 4-year-old male caribou.

During the summer in Alaska the sunlight ... yet all the animals behave as if it’s dusk. We had spent much of the day tracking the Caribou and it was getting late. We were heading dangerously ...

A study published in Global Change Biology shows that caribou will ... in northwest Alaska for 11 years, from 2009 to 2020. The researchers discovered that when the animals wintered south of ...