Reindeer are more domesticated than their Canadian cousins, but exhibit different behaviors (such as preferring to herd in the direction of the wind, which in these arctic climes often changes ...

In Arctic Norway, some 30 Indigenous Sami herders discuss their big worry: a planned 54-km power line to supply Western Europe's largest liquefied natural gas plant.

This herd used to have a population of over 600,000 animals, but it is currently down to 190,000 reindeer. Researchers believe the LRCH could face extinction by 2080.

A fighter jet roaring through the grey sky breaks the tranquillity of a boreal forest in northern Finland, one more sign of a growing military presence that is challenging the ability of reindeer ...

Reindeer could not paw through the thick ice to access lichen, their primary food source. In a region where winter temperatures can plunge below –50° Celsius, that ground remained frozen months ...

In the last two years, 10,000 reindeer died. If this winter is bad, herders fear up to half the herd could be lost.

While temperatures in Kautokeino, Norway’s main reindeer-herding hub, used to regularly drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) for several weeks at a time, nowadays this ...

The reindeer herd on the hard-to-reach Kolguev Island in the Nenets Autonomous Region's Arctic area is rebuilt to 3,000 animals, the regional government's press service told TASS.

Sweden's reindeer are thriving because of the cooler summer temperatures this year, Swedish Radio P4 Västerbotten reports. Malå reindeer herding community says it is experiencing the best summer ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The Sami reindeer herders of Norway's Arctic are building a snowmobile drive-in theater using, of course, the tundra's most plentiful winter resource: snow.

Anna KORKMAN AFP May 24, 2025 Updated May 25, 2025 Increased military activity in the Arctic has become a headache for Finland's reindeer herders Olivier MORIN ...