Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being written. East of the Mackenzie River, in the Canadian Arctic, a free-ranging ...

I am a Sami reindeer herder from northern Norway. My family and I have herded reindeer for generations. It is not just our ...

Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a ...

Mining company Blue Moon Metals plans to dispose of its mining waste in Repparfjord, a nationally protected salmon fjord in the Norwegian Arctic that Indigenous Sámi fishers rely on. When operational, ...

Nestled in the remote forests of northern Mongolia, where bone-chilling winter temperatures plummet to minus fifty degrees, one of the world's most extraordinary nomadic cultures continues to thrive.

COPENHAGEN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Norway's energy regulator said on Tuesday it had rejected an application to build a wind farm in its northernmost Finnmark county, citing impacts to a wilderness area as ...

This is the third story in a four-part series from the Alaska Desk called Shelf Life, which looks at food security in Alaska. The Kookooligit Mountains, made of black volcanic rock, glistened behind ...

Most Americans know about the indigenous nations Navajo, Cherokee, and Sioux, with deep histories that once shaped North America. Europe has its own Indigenous people, called Sámi, who have lived in ...

In Finland’s Arctic, unpredictable weather events pose a threat to reindeer herding, a traditional livelihood for the Indigenous Sámi people. Due to climate impacts, the global reindeer population ...

KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer ...