Alaska’s total national parkland protects more than 41 million acres (roughly the size of Wisconsin) and encompasses biomes ranging from temperate rainforests to arctic tundra. Within that ...

The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

Several hours later, NORAD said it also scrambled two F-16 fighter jets from Alaska to Greenland in order to "forward posture NORAD presence in the Arctic." The command said that move was "not in ...

The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related shrub growth.

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of ...

The treeless tundra that rings the Arctic Ocean covers an area nearly twice the size of Alaska. This region has historically served as Earth’s freezer. Its permanently frozen ground, called ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.

Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National ... The debate over oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has divided Alaska Natives. North Slope Iñupiat organizations ...

Tundra and Banks are six-year-old Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears who live at the Lake Superior Zoo. Though in the Winter we don’t see much of them as they’ve gone into torpor. Each bears weighs ...