The U.S. government should emphasize the importance of polar diplomacy amid continuing territorial disputes among Arctic ...

The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal, a bunch of greenhouse gases go ...

Today, global warming and dramatic melting of polar ice urgently underscore the vital importance of the region.

What about the rest of the North?” asked McGeorge Bundy, President of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled Native ...

The biggest glacier in the Northern Hemisphere is also one of the coolest places to peek into Alaska's ancient geological ...

New genetic research on the Alaska red king crab reveals previously undiscovered diversity among different regions, ...

Sometimes having a friend or partner who’s a role model and coach can enable positive changes. Other times, it makes those ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

With the state’s glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them ...

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2 tales and 2 intertwining ...

In my part of Alaska, not far from Anchorage ... from work is brightened only by streetlamps and lighted windows reflecting ...