Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Alaska’s most active volcano, the tiny and tempestuous Bogoslof, erupted again over the weekend, the latest installation in a geologic
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FAIRBANKS — An environmental mystery lies in the remote Aleutian chain, the archipelago that stretches to Asia: Why do endangered Steller
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In a race against time, state transportation officials plan to move a nearly mile-long section of the Dalton Highway so it
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An eruption at Bogoslof volcano – one of two to erupt in the Aleutian Islands Tuesday – is its first
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Two years ago in Iqaluit, Canada’s “heart of the Arctic,” the U.S. took over the chairmanship of the Arctic Council,
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FAIRBANKS — When he opened a meeting of his colleagues from all the Arctic nations, U.S. Secretary of State Rex
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The tundra of Alaska and other Arctic regions once soaked up atmospheric carbon and locked it in the frozen ground, reducing
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The Arctic Ocean is now on track to become ice-free in summers as soon as two decades from now, while
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Two scientists’ fascination with the layered ice mounds that build up along Arctic Alaska rivers led to an important discovery
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A weekend gas and oil leak from an old production well on the North Slope was stopped Sunday night when
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Growing concerns over Cook Inlet’s antiquated oil and gas facilities have prompted renewed calls for increased oversight following announcements of multiple leaks this
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The brownish cloud known as Arctic haze, produced by industrial activities and coal burning in faraway sites in Asia and
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WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers in Congress made their opposition clear to any potential drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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The flow of oil from an undersea pipeline leaking in Cook Inlet was halted Sunday, one day after the leak
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After humans, the mammals most successful at colonizing North America were the bison that thundered across the Great Plains. Just
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