Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, are familiar hoofed animals that live in cold climates near the North Pole. In many societies, ...

St. Matthew Island is an uninhabited, remote area in Alaska, where very few mammals can survive. The island features freezing ...

Photo courtesy of Beyond the Bucketlist Deep in the heart of Siberia, members of a semi-nomadic group are sipping warm bowls ...

The distinction between reindeer and caribou depends on where they live. Typically, we refer to Eurasian populations as ...

She belongs to a community of indigenous Sami reindeer herders near the city of Umeå in northern Sweden, who say they've been affected by the climate crisis. Thick fluffy snow usually falls from ...

Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice. Some reindeer have travelled as far ...

And just last week, two different U.N. committees found that Finland violated the rights of the Sámi by granting mineral exploration permits in Finnish Sápmi — the homelands of the Sámi peoples that ...

The Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic is the heart of the Russian energy empire. It is home to the world's largest natural gas ...

A captivating story of a quest to find shamans among a small band of nomadic, reindeer herders, known as the Dukha, who live in one of the most remote and hard to reach areas of Mongolia.