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 ...

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

While these cold-weather animals are incredibly beautiful, their species is threatened. Climate change, habitat loss, food scarcity, and poaching are major threats to the snow leopards' way of life.

Also, a caribou’s hooves are broad and flat allowing them to keep their balance while walking across snow and ice. Elk live in forests, meadows, and sometimes near swampy areas.

A group of caribou moves easily over snow. The animals’ hooves, which have four “toes,” act as snowshoes. Warmer, icier winters make it difficult for them to dig down to the lichens that ...

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

A ladder of 14 automated cameras has for the first time recorded the northward springtime migrations of caribou and ptarmigan in the foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska. Some 40,000 images ...