In the winter of 2013-14 ... and it’s hard for reindeer to pull the loaded sleighs across the dry tundra. Before the summer is out, a boy and more than 2,300 reindeer will die from anthrax ...

Alaska's summer is a magnet for visitors ... Autumn paints the forests and tundra in vibrant colors, but locals are busy preparing for winter. Spring, known as the 'breakup,' is a muddy period ...

Swans that spend their summers in tundra lakes north of the Brooks Range are East Coast birds in the winter, settling in ... East Coast-wintering birds that summer on the Colville River may ...

Juvenile: brown and streaked, it acquires the red cap in the late summer molt ... The rostrata breeds in tundra scrub, where it overlaps with the hoary. Winter: forms large flocks.