Zachariah Hughes

Zachariah Hughes is a reporter for Alaska Public Media in Anchorage, covering politics, the military, and cultural issues. In this role he's gotten to travel to some of the most remote parts of Alaska, and on military embeds overseas. He helped launch a daily podcast covering the Iditarod sled-dog race from the trail. His reporting regularly appears on NPR, Marketplace, Here and Now, and The Guardian. Originally from New England, Zach lived abroad in Turkey and the Czech Republic before getting his start in radio at KNOM in Nome, Alaska.

Subsistence hunter Dennis Davis sends his drone out over the ice on the Chukchi Sea in Shishmaref in far-western Alaska. Warming winters have made the sea ice here more dangerous to navigate in search of seals and walruses, but drones can help map the bes

Subsistence hunters adapt to a warming Alaska with new tools

February 22, 2018Jobs

Alaska is warming up roughly twice as fast as the rest of the US and that means big new challenges for Native communities that rely on hunting for survival. Hunters are trying to adapt by changing both how and what they hunt.