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. The Bureau of Land Management opened nominations last week for the first-ever oil and gas lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic ...

The Biden Administration will open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leases this January. Alaskan Native Communities want a seat at the table. An airplane flies over caribou ...

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. Two animals in the Teshekpuk Caribou Herd are seen on June 27, 2014, in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The Trump ...

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 ...

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 ...