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It is minus 6 degrees Celsius in Arctic Norway and some 30 Indigenous Sami herders have gathered 1,500 reindeer in a corral, sorting who owns which animal after the herds mixed while grazing up ...
The reindeer graze on Norway's border with Russia. When 42 of them crossed into Russia, the Norwegian government had to pay Russia for the loss of grassland. More than $4,000 per reindeer.
According to scientists in the region, the reindeer starved to death due to a particularly harsh winter. Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Norway's government institution for ...
Researchers recently found more than 200 dead reindeer on the island of Svalbard in Norway; the animals starved to death due to climate change, which is disrupting their access to the plants that ...
Some 50,000 Sami live in Norway today, but only about 5,000 to 6,000 of them are still reindeer herders, Roar tells me. “I don’t go to an office, I go to my reindeer,” he says, with what ...
The plateau-like park in south-central Norway is home to Europe’s largest herds of wild reindeer, according to its website. One of the agency’s inspectors discovered the dead animals over the ...
The Norwegian government says 323 reindeer were apparently struck by lightning last week and died. The animals lived on a mountain plateau in central Norway called the Hardangervidda. The rugged ...
In what has been called a "bloodbath," a total of 106 Norwegian reindeer on their winter migration have been killed by freight trains in the north of the country since Wednesday, Norway's public ...
At least 42 reindeer have crossed from Norway into Russia in search of better pastures and grazing land this year. The reindeer force Norway to have to compensate Russia for the loss of grassland ...
Hammerfest LNG would use renewable power from the grid – most of Norway’s electricity production comes from hydropower – instead of gas to run its five turbines. Reindeer circle inside a ...