Caribou crossing the frozen Porcupine River upstream from Old Crow in the Yukon Territory became trapped when the river’s ice began breaking up.

Indigenous communities in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic have relied on the migratory Porcupine caribou herd for thousands of years, leading to a deep relationship and respect for the caribou. A ...

Caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. With president-elect Donald Trump promising to drill in Alaska's ...

This puts the migratory paths of the porcupine caribou, and the future of their young, at risk for total devastation. Not only is drilling in the Arctic Refuge an unwise environmental prospect ...

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA —The Porcupine Caribou Herd hit a record high in 2017, according to the results of a July photo census.

Gwich’in tribes have asked the Biden administration to establish an Indigenous sacred site in the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where federal law calls for an upcoming oil ...

BARROW, Alaska -- Time is running out for the Porcupine caribou herd, according to the conservation officer for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. Darius Kassi said the caribou are late again this year ...

The April 7 front-page article "Warnings on Drilling Reversed" was misleading. Research results obviously were clarified, not "reversed." The original claim was that caribou may be particularly ...

Native to the Arctic region, reindeer are one of the staples for the survival of arctic people, used for transportation, food, and clothing for generations. There are around 7 million reindeer spread ...

A group of Western Arctic Herd caribou pause in front of mountains in Kobuk Valley National Park during fall migration in 2016. The Western Arctic herd, one of the largest in the world, has been in ...