Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go ...

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

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

More woody plants on the ground make life harder for caribou, both by displacing their usual tundra food sources and by creating new obstacles to movement. Open water does not affect Alaska’s ...

In his new film, Flight Risk, the actor plays the pilot of a tiny light aircraft plying the routes above Alaska’s icy, mountainous wilderness; and I was about to board an identical six-seat ...

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On his first day in office, President-elect Trump will issue a national emergency related to energy and also issue executive orders aimed at utilizing U.S. energy and specifically Alaska’s ...

Caribou depend on tundra plants like lichen and mosses; the shrubs and trees taking over the terrain are reducing the availability of that food favored by the animals. Western Arctic Caribou Herd ...

Alaska is one of the world’s great cruising destinations, with superlative landscapes – notably the island-studded Inside Passage and sublime glaciers of Tracy Arm and beyond – as well as ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - The U.S. Coast Guard reports rescuing two fishermen after their vessel capsized off Alaska on Wednesday afternoon. The agency’s command center said it originally received a distress ...

According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing areas are dotted around Alaska ... and 99 percent of Eurasian tundra saw "significant" warming.