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Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer.Later, the predators will come — Siberian tigers, wolves and maybe leopards.Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filling the vast emptiness of Siberia with grass-eating animals can slow global warming."Some people have a small garden. I have an ice age park. It's my hobby," says Zimov, smiling through his graying beard. His true profession is quantum physics.Climate change is felt most sharply in the Arctic, where temperatures are warming faster than anywhere else on the planet. Most climate scientists say human activity, especially industrial pollution and the byproducts of everyday living like home heating and driving cars, is triggering an unnatural...
LEVI LAPLAND, Finland (AP) — Rene Redzepi was crouched and using a sharp knife to scrape lichen from rocks. The tiny green tubes usually feed reindeer in this land a...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge on Monday denied the state of Alaska's request for a preliminary injunction to kill wolves, a step it said was needed to pro...
A judge has declared nearly 470 square miles of national forest land in northern Idaho off-limits to snowmobiles in an effort to save the last mountain caribou herd ...
I wish I were a moose.For a few hours anyway, in Denali National Park .Denali is a "trail-less" park, which means that hiking there isn't like hiking on easy-to-foll...
It's rather stinky and kind of loud, but an exhibit that allows visitors to bed down with 24 golden canaries and a dozen reindeer is one of the most popular ever at ...
Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen were no doubt keeping an eye on the recent climate conference in Copenhagen. Reindeer numbers have dropped nearly 60 percent ...
Gov. Palin on the importance of moose and other wildlife to Alaskans
Protecting folks from criticism only hurts them in the long run
During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartb...
You thought Barack and Mitt were fierce presidential candidates? Try Ahpun the polar bear and Denali the wolf.The Alaska Zoo, in what it acknowledges is shameless pr...
You've heard of storm chasing. Up in Alaska, they have aurora chasing. That means hunting for the best views of the mystical aurora borealis, also known as the north...
Most people know Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose — but why? Medical researchers say they've now found the answer.[sidebar]The secret to Rudolp...
Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and ...
Rep. Louie Gohmert makes unique argument
A reindeer herder in Russia's Arctic has stumbled on the pre-historic remains of a baby woolly mammoth poking out of the permafrost, local officials said on Friday.T...
The indigenous Sami people of Europe's Arctic region are celebrating their national day amid worries that their ancient traditions based on reindeer herding will dis...
This Christmas, like many before it and many yet to come, the story of Santa and his flying reindeer will be told, including how the "jolly old elf" flies on his sle...
Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herdsSunday, December 07, 2008By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:POZNAN, Poland Chief Bill Erasm...
Luxury has crept into the most unlikely of industries, including that of hunting. In the past, hunting was all about checked shirts, sleeping on the ground and roast...