The herd that roams between northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada is down in size from the all-time high counted in ...
Two bull caribou of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd swimming across the Kobuk River during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. The herd has been in decline since hitting its peak ...
The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou Herd ...
The Trump administration plans to create a new designated region for offshore oil leasing in Arctic waters off Alaska, an area where past exploration attempts have failed amid extremely high costs, ...
“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick summer berries on a ...
When remnants of Typhoon Merbok hit the Alaska Native village of Hooper Bay in 2022, the impact was immediate and — for this roughly 1,400-person town on the edge of the Bering Sea — disastrous. “It ...