A caribou hooves are large and hollow in the centre, making them handy tools for digging in the winter snow to scoop up lichen, an important food source ... Even with such a large range, these animals ...

The CETB data set is hosted and distributed through NASA’s NSIDC Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

Caribou, also known as reindeer, are large mammals. You can find them living in areas of Europe, Asia, North America, and Greenland. The most common misconception is that caribou and reindeer are ...

December is here and so is chilly weather. That is, if you live in a place where it does get chilly. For these 10 animals, where they live, it's always cold. They are known as chionophiles, or ...

“Yes,” I’ll say. The elder will nod. “Don’t forget.” A group of caribou moves easily over snow. The animals’ hooves, which have four “toes,” act as snowshoes. Warmer, icier ...

AI is helping protect Arctic caribou by predicting safe ice crossings and warning ships to stay clear during key migration ...

Both animals are seasonal migrators, and some caribou are known to be the longest ... them to keep their balance while walking across snow and ice. Elk live in forests, meadows, and sometimes ...

Where once elders told stories of local caribou “like bugs on the land,” by 2013, only 38 of the animals remained. Years of industrial logging, oil and gas exploration, and the building of ...