The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It's called the National Petroleum Reserve ...

State and Borough burn permits in Kodiak have been suspended in response to the wildfires that are closing roads and causing home evacuations across Interior Alaska.

In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

Zoe Denenberg is a traveling cook, baker, and food writer. She is the executive chef at Camp Denali, a remote wilderness lodge in Denali National Park, Alaska. This time last year, I was living in ...

Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska.

POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 16, 1935 (UP) - Will Rogers, the cowboy humorist, and Wiley Post, 'round-the-world flier, were killed at 8:18 P.M. Thursday (2:18 A.M. Friday, New York time) when Post's ...

The goal of our June campaign was to install automated sensors to capture the springtime green-up of the tundra. Even though it is June and after the official first day of summer, spring is just ...

A beaver is seen on June 12, 2018, swimming in a tundra pond in the Nome area. As the climate has warmed, beavers have moved north into tundra terrain in both Alaska and Canada. A National Science ...

In Noatak National Preserve in Alaska, the views are unimaginably beautiful in a way that will take your breath away if the cold hasn’t already done so. Below are photos of an example of the food ...

Alaska salmon woes, extreme precipitation, tundra shrub growth part of Arctic transformation NOAA’s 2023 Arctic Report Card highlights challenges posed by rapid climate change in Alaska ...

The tundra, like those spruce trees, is tough to even recognize. Small spruce and clumps of alders, dwarf birch and willows are covering the once open land.