A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

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 ...

Mariah Meek, Michigan State University The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and ...

After decades in Fairbanks and even a few close calls in wildfire country, it wasn’t until my son joined the North Star fire ...

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...

Thawing permafrost has released so much methane into Esieh Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska that the air above it is flammable. Credit: Katey Walter Anthony/ University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

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

Why It Matters June marks the thaw and breakup season for most of Alaska. Though unusual, June snowfall is not unprecedented in the Brooks Range, which features elevations exceeding 4,000 feet.

Estimating the landscape and soil freeze-thaw (FT) dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) is crucial for understanding permafrost response to global warming and changes in regional and global carbon ...

Lake Erie is a vital way station for waterfowl that will breed from the prairie pothole region of the western U.S., through the vast Canadian prairie provinces and all the way into Alaska.

By documenting Alaska’s lakes and ponds in unprecedented detail, Levenson et al. show where and how water bodies can signal underlying permafrost thaw, providing a step toward a straightforward ...