New research suggests female reindeer antlers serve as postpartum snacks, with new moms munching on them after giving birth ...

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of ...

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth ...

The Bureau of Land Management opened nominations last week for the first-ever oil and gas lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, setting the stage for development that ...

The Trump administration revoked a Native village’s right to protect and access a key caribou herd near ConocoPhillips’ Willow project. An Alaska Native nonprofit is suing the Interior Department for ...

The caribou herd that is at the center of the debate over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has declined by about a third over the past eight years, according to state biologists.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animals in the Porcupine Caribou Herd forage in 2019 on vegetation at the ledge of a hill adjacent to the Hulahula River in the ...

Several caribou herds in Alaska's Arctic are on the decline. That now includes the Porcupine herd, which is the largest. Biologists say the reasons for the downward trends are hard to pin down. Alaska ...

Survey data released by the N.W.T. government in November says the Bathurst caribou population has declined by 47 per cent over three years. That's despite ongoing measures to protect the herd. Tamara ...

Caribou move along barren ground in northern Canada. The Bathurst caribou population has declined from 400,000 to less than 4,000 over the last 30 years, according to new surveys by the government of ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dec. 18, 2025 — Dr. Elie Gurarie from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) partnered with the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration to produce new maps ...