A history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia that ...

Herding traditions in Finland, Peru, and Kenya are explored. See how the Lapps, Quechuas, and Maasai depend on reindeer, llamas/alpacas, and cattle for survival and culture.

A recent climate initiative by the Norwegian government is facing opposition from the Saami Indigenous people, whose ...

Some 10,500 indigenous Sami live in Finland, speaking three different Sami languages. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Meet the Sámi, an Indigenous community still thriving in the Sápmi region, which today encompasses Norway, Sweden, Finland, ...

Santa’s elite reindeer corps adds to the fun in “The Flight before Christmas,” an uplifting Finnish Christmas movie. Courtesy of Nordisk Film Movies can make a significant contribution to the holiday ...

With less than a month to go until Christmas, Santa Claus is busy preparing, but the warming climate and lack of snow in his Arctic hometown have him worried.

What color are reindeer eyes? Depends on the season. An astrophysicist and an eye expert teamed up to solve the mystery of how and why reindeers’ eyes switch from yellow to blue in wintertime.

A new day shelter is being built at Korvatunturi in Finland’s Urho Kekkonen National Park, near the Russian border. The ...

The taiga is the largest contiguous vegetation zone in the world. The birch plays a special role in this boreal coniferous ...

When 72-year-old fisherman Walter Tende went to check his fishing nets on the shore of Lake Victoria in January 2020, he hoped to get a decent catch.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Large Animal Research Station will introduce its new reindeer and muskox calves at its annual Birthday Bash from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The free event ...