Alaska National Parks are a must-see for any National Park fan! There is just something about Alaska and the wild beauty ...

From early trackless trams to the military’s obsession with Arctic logistics, we trace the strange evolution of trains that never needed rails. The story centers on R.G. LeTourneau and his ...

In the remote northwestern corner of Alaska sits Nome, a frontier town where gold rush history meets otherworldly landscapes that would make George Lucas do a double-take. You know that feeling when ...

Tucked away in the frosty landscape of Fairbanks, where winter turns your breath into tiny clouds of personal weather, sits a thrifter’s paradise that locals guard like a secret fishing spot: Value ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

NEW ORLEANS — Record-setting temperatures and rainfall in the Arctic over the past year sped up the melting of permafrost and washed toxic minerals into more than 200 rivers across northern Alaska, ...

Wildfires on Alaska's North Slope were more active this past century than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a study published in the journal Biogeosciences. The study was conducted in ...

Arctic rivers flowing through Alaska are increasingly turning orange as wildfires, thawing permafrost and other factors contribute to an influx of heavy metals in these waterways. NOAA's annual Arctic ...

Competition between the US, Russia and China is shutting out regional statkeholders and ignoring the interests of Indigenous ...

Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

Caribou move along barren ground in northern Canada. The Bathurst caribou population has declined from 400,000 to less than 4,000 over the last 30 years, according to new surveys by the government of ...

The Arctic is a dramatically different place than it was 20 years ago, when scientists first began giving it an annual checkup—and its current state is dire. The first Arctic Report Card was released ...