Alaska. Located within the Arctic Circle, this town is known for extreme changes in daylight throughout the year. During the ...

America's northernmost town is Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Located within the Arctic Circle, this town is known for extreme changes in daylight throughout the year. During the winter ...

Meteorologists and astronomers call the lengthy bright stretch there “polar day.” It’s the opposite of “polar night,” or the ...

During the summer, several destinations, from Norway to Alaska, experience the Midnight Sun, a phenomenon where the sun ...

Encampments on state parcels within the municipality have been a jurisdictional quagmire. But under new guidelines, that ...

In winter, surface ice traps the gas ... Josiah Olemaun, a young Inupiat whaler in Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska, takes a breather while stacking whale meat in his family’s permafrost cellar.

set in the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska, in the extreme northern hemisphere, which is plunged into complete darkness annually for an entire month. When most of the inhabitants head south for the ...

The northernmost point in the United States sits just north of the community of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) and 350 miles above ... pan for gold in the local creek! Naturally, Alaska offers an ...

At Izembek Lagoon, Pacific black brant are choosing to overwinter in the Bering Sea — drawn by warming waters and the ...

On Alaska’s North Slope, most exploration activities take place in winter, when the region’s tundra is frozen and travel is easier. Federal action by this fall could permit work in the winter ...