Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caribou gather in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in June. Will oil and gas leases blocked by the Biden administration be ...

AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Websites can be scrubbed of climate change references and the U.S. halted from international and national climate assessments, but ...

It doesn’t take a scientist to tell you that rivers aren’t supposed to be orange, but natural processes are doing just that ...

A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska. Nearly 50 Alaska Native communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta near ...

With his eyes on Alaska weather and climate for many years, Rick Thoman saw a need for a recent update on what is happening within America’s largest state. “Alaska was being hammered with extreme ...

Commercial oyster farmers now send samples of their products to state regulators every week during the selling season so they can test for toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.

Across Southeast Alaska, landslides have killed at least a dozen people since August 2015. Landslides happen across the U.S., but geologists say they’re inescapable in Southeast Alaska. In the latest ...

Seldovia, Alaska — a quintessential sleepy fishing town on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula — starts to wake up around late May. By then, the first salmon are running. Water taxis come and go.

The little tree in Josh Smith's yard at the base of Bear Mountain resembled an alder, the scrappy and familiar Alaskan shrub. But the sturdy sapling with oval leaves was actually a hazelnut, a crop ...

In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, ...

Websites can be scrubbed of climate change references and the U.S. halted from international and national climate assessments, but rising temperatures leave their own evidence, especially in the ...