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 ...

For countless millennia, the caribou herds of Northwest Alaska have migrated across the ... To some extent, it depends where you plunk down your finger on Alaska’s map. There have been examples of ...

Rick Thoman, a climate researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks, edited the report and said the NOAA report card also documents rapid declines in caribou herds. “Particularly the large ...