Exploitation of natural resources, such as forestry or gas and oil extraction, and management practices may have faster and greater impacts on reindeer populations than does climate change, a study finds. However, climate ...
Ecology
Dec 29, 2016
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There's good news for Rudolph and his friends—an app is helping officials reduce the number of reindeer killed in traffic accidents in Finland.
Ecology
Dec 24, 2016
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Scientists have interviewed nomadic reindeer herders in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of West Siberia, the world's most productive reindeer herding region, to look at how global warming is affecting their way of life. ...
Ecology
Nov 16, 2016
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Deep into the Arctic Circle in the far north of Norway, Finland, Sweden and north-west Russia, a few thousand indigenous minority people known as the Saami continue to follow a lifestyle of reindeer husbandry. But their profession ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2015
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Researchers say climate change isn't threatening reindeer on the Norwegian high arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
Ecology
Jul 16, 2014
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Glowing reindeer can be spotted in northern Finland thanks to a reflective spray which makes them more visible in a bid to prevent car accidents, Finnish reindeer breeders said Tuesday.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2014
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One of the consequences of a warmer climate can be that lowland and southern plants migrate higher up in the mountains. Ecologist Elina Kaarlejärvi shows in her thesis that reindeer, voles and hare can prevent these invasions. ...
Environment
Feb 13, 2014
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose, goes the holiday classic. And now, a Lund University research team in Sweden has captured the phenomenon with a thermographic camera.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2013
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Nobody has ever come up with a definitive explanation for Rudolph's fabled red nose, but visitors to Kingston University's latest Café Scientifique session have had the chance to hear all about the curious case of his colour-changing ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2013
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Arctic reindeer have no problems with snowstorms but are badly affected by rain, a finding that has implications for assessing how climate change affects wildlife, a study on Wednesday says.
Ecology
Sep 26, 2012
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