The Alatna River—one of six National Wild and Scenic Rivers in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, the highest ...

As climate change warms the Arctic, permafrost is thawing, and carbon trapped within the soil is moving into the atmosphere.

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold ...

Author Richard Foster tells how, as a teenager, he signed up for an internship in Alaska, thinking he would have the adventure of “working on the first high school above the Arctic Circle.” The ...

How do squirrels survive winter?” Tree squirrels don’t hibernate. We respond to cold weather by putting on layers and staying indoors. Squirrels do the same, spending more time in insulated ...

Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

In addition to swearing in Dr. Mike Sfraga as the United States’ first Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region, the State ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Authorities are focusing on the wreckage of a plane that crashed off western Alaska as they try to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea, killing 10 people ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Authorities are working to ... agencies scoured large stretches of icy waters and miles of frozen tundra before finding the plane. A Black Hawk helicopter will be used ...

Local, state, and federal agencies assisted in the search effort, combing stretches of ice-dotted waters and scouring miles of tundra. Alaska's US ... just south of the Arctic Circle and is ...