NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Max Graham, a writer for High Country News, about Alaska's declining caribou population, and the state's plan to save them by shooting predators like grizzlies and wolves.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bureau of Land Management opened nominations last week for the first-ever oil and gas lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic ...

A study published in the journal Scientific Reports last month found that roads significantly changed some of the western Arctic caribou herd's behavior and delayed their migrations. The herd has one ...

When Janet Bavilla was a teenager, it wasn’t hard to find caribou. The animals swept across the land, dozens or even hundreds at a time, passing near her village on Alaska’s Bering Sea coast. On ...

As Christmas approaches, young eyes will be focused on the sky searching for a glimpse of Santa and his reindeer—or are they caribou? The differences between the two are mostly taxonomic—both are ...

Juneau, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the ...

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.