Glacial lakes across Alaska are expanding as ice retreats, and the water they hold is draining with increasing ferocity into ...
Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When the river level begins to rise rapidly, it’s a sign that Suicide Basin, a small ...
Dramatic landscapes and rich biodiversity characterize Alaska’s unique environment. Alaska is the only US state with ...
Alaska’s glacial lakes are growing as glaciers retreat out of basins. These lakes will change desolate glacial rivers into ...
When scientists Patrick Sullivan and Roman Dial were heading to a remote area in the Brooks Range in 2019 to map the spread of woody plants there, they were looking forward to seeing a celebrated ...
The North — including the Yukon and Alaska — is warming much faster than the rest of the world due to climate change. Researchers want to know how that will affect the baby salmon hatching in rivers ...
Southcentral Alaska’s Susitna River is one of the nation’s most endangered rivers because of a state plan to build a 100-mile road into its uplands to encourage mining, oil and gas drilling, logging ...
Alaska Army National Guard rescued the family of six from a sandbar on Alaska's Kuskokwim River on June 30 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared ...
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, ...
The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest ...