Searchers in Alaska are flying over stretches of ice-covered seas and scouring miles of frozen tundra for any sign of a plane that went missing just south of the Arctic Circle with 10 people on board ...

Authorities say a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome has been located on sea ice and all 10 on board are dead.

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Rescuers flew over stretches of ice-covered seas and scoured miles of frozen tundra Friday for any ... Alaska just south of the Arctic Circle. FBI agents were using ...

Point Lay, Alaska, epitomizes the extreme Arctic. Winter on the Northwest Alaska coast is marked ... to differentiate the snow-covered road from the snow blanketing the tundra. We stumbled over small ...

After storing carbon dioxide for thousands of years, parts of the Arctic's vast tundra, forests and wetlands ... Last year's permafrost temperatures in Alaska were the second-warmest on record.

JUNEAU, Alaska — (AP) — Searchers flew over stretches of ice-covered seas and scoured miles of frozen tundra Friday for ... Alaska just south of the Arctic Circle. FBI agents were using ...