Alaska

Two hikers wearing cold-weather gear traverse a snowy mountain slope, with snow-covered peaks visible in the background under a clear blue sky.
Out of Eden Walk
As climate change melts permafrost, landslides are becoming more dangerous 
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Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve
Energy
Federal judge blocks major Alaskan drilling project
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge caribou aerial
Environment
Trump administration tries to sell off Arctic wildlife refuge in its final days
A man raises his left arm in protest.
Climate Change
Indigenous youth take global stage in Madrid to voice climate change worries 
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History
From the USSR with love: A sailor’s 50-year-old message in a bottle makes it to Alaska
A cityscape of Anchorage, Alaska with dog-sled racers and mountains
Climate Change
With an Indigenous perspective, Anchorage seeks to adapt to climate change even if Alaska doesn’t
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The Big Melt
As the Arctic warms up, a ‘new ocean’ is bringing new commerce to the top of the world
sea ice
The Big Melt
Ice is us: Alaska Natives face the demise of the Arctic ice pack
A person walks through a puddle in Shismaref, Alaska.
The Big Melt
An Alaskan village is falling into the sea. Washington is looking the other way.
A slate-blue sea stretches out on the horizon. In the foreground, green grass is dotted with wildflowers.
Culture
For some Alaska Natives, the Bering Sea and an international border makes it hard to go home
Red gloved hands grab a fish out of a huge pile of silver skinned salmon.
Economics
Alaska’s seafood industry waits for China tariff pain
Mastodons (this one on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles) are just a small part of the story of how humans first migrated to the Americas 15,000 years ago — or longer.
Books
Retracing paths that people first traversed while migrating to the Americas
Alaska oil pipeline
Climate Change
Can Alaska rely on oil and address climate change? State officials are about to find out.
Red Dog Mine
Environment
The most toxic town in America
a group of people in a field holding traditional grass baskets
Attu descendants visit their ancestral home for the first time
attu
Seventy-five years after the Battle of Attu, veterans reflect on the cost of reclaiming US soil
Bits of icebergs can be seen that have broken off the Sawyer Glacier in Alaska, where the effects of climate change are being felt at a higher rate than the Lower 48.
Environment
Alaskan youth sue state government for lack of action against climate change
Frozen ice Bering Sea
Environment
Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks
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
Jobs
Subsistence hunters adapt to a warming Alaska with new tools
A view of tundra landscape in the Rocky Mountains — 11,000 feet from sea level.
Science
In the dead of winter, plants are already starting to prepare for spring — underground
Gas pipeline in Germany
Environment
Trump pushes natural gas deal between China and Alaska, but obstacles remain
Drilling in Wyoming
Environment
The US Department of the Interior’s new four-year strategic plan calls for maximizing fossil fuel extraction from public lands
ANWR porcupine caribou
Economics
Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more likely now than ever before
bipartisanship
Conflict
Is bipartisanship dead? Not in Alaska.
Pecan Acres
Economics
Frequent flooding in Louisiana could lead to buyouts for entire neighborhoods
Ivy Mike
Conflict
What you need to know about modern nuclear war
Girls with the “Rhythm of Light” dance troupe perform at a weekly farmer’s market in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood.
Culture
Guess which state has America’s most diverse neighborhood? Hint: It’s not California, New York or Florida.
The Exit Glacier, a two-and-a-half hour drive outside of Anchorage, has posts that mark the glacier’s rapid retreat. This one shows the glacier’s reach just 12 years ago.
Environment
Anchorage is confronting more rapid climate change, but has few dollars to address it
Fishermen sell their daily catch at the docks in Cordova, Alaska, where they are weighed, packed in ice, and sent to a processing facility.
Economics
Instead of fighting global competition, Alaska’s salmon industry is (reluctantly) embracing it
Science
Watch one scientist’s unorthodox approach to getting ‘inside the mind of a musk ox’
Kodiak bear
Environment
Congress repeals a regulation limiting hunting in Alaska’s wildlife refuges
DNA
Health
Modern-day tribes still carry traces of colonial devastation in their DNA
Common murre swimming
Environment
Warm ocean temps could be starving Alaskan seabirds
Haines, AK, in December
Culture
What writing obituaries taught them about life
America’s highest peak, as seen from the Stony Dome lookout point in Denali National Park
Global Politics
So who was McKinley and why did he have a mountain?
Alaskan salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska
Environment
Will Canada’s new mines hurt Alaska’s salmon?
"Kayaktivists" demonstrate in Seattle's Elliot Bay against the arrival last month of the Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig, rising behind them above the city's waterfront. Shell is using Seattle as a staging area for its new offshore drilling operatio
Environment
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
The border between Stewart, British Columbia and Hyder, Alaska as seen from the Canadian side.
Business
Canada plans to limit the hours of a border crossing that divides US village, Canadian town
Kivalina, AK
Environment
Will these Alaska villagers be America’s first climate change refugees?
The polar jet stream carries weather around the Northern Hemisphere. Climate researcher Jenifer Francis believes the rapidly warming Arctic is slowing and warping the jet stream, allowing Arctic air to spill farther south in some places.
Science
How the warming Arctic might be behind Boston’s deep freeze
Three PV-1 planes fly by Kiska Volcano during the Allied invasion of Kiska on August 15, 1943.
Conflict
Remember the time Japan invaded the US? Yes, really
Blue whales are the largest creatures that have ever lived. They were hunted to near extinction in the 20th century and have only recovered since to perhaps 10% of their pre-whaling numbers, but new research has found that the Northeastern Pacific populat
Environment
Here’s the green success story of the California blue whale
Mosque in Alaska
Belief
Alaska’s first mosque prepares to open its doors
Chandra Chifici at Deanie's Seafood weighs shrimp for customers in Metairie, Louisiana, in 2010.
Environment
How American seafood goes almost everywhere except America
This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l
Environment
Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia
This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l
Environment
Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia
Sports
Snowshoeing and snow snaking are favorites at the Arctic Winter Games
Five cent coins are pictured in the air in front of the Federal Palace in Bern, Switzerland, during an event organised by the committee that delivered 126,000 signatures to the parliament to propose a minimum monthly disposal household income of CHF 2,500
Business, Economics and Jobs
$2750 a month for every adult, guaranteed? Switzerland’s considering it
Environment
Buffalo zoo about to take polar bear cub population from one to two
Environment
Researchers suggest supplemental feeding as a potential solution to save polar bears
Environment
Warming climate presents grave risk of greenhouse gas release in Arctic
Global Politics
Voting underway across the country as Americans choose between Romney, Obama
American cars a sign of status, admiration in Kosovo
Environment
Iceland’s president weighs in on impact of rapidly disappearing Arctic ice
Environment
Environmentalist critical of Republican Paul Ryan’s record
Environment
Scientists reveal startling decrease in Arctic Ocean ice cover
Environment
DNA study finds first Americans arrived in waves
Global Politics
U.S. appeals court strikes down Congressional ban on political ads on public broadcasting
Environment
VIDEO: U.S. Coast Guard uses cannon to sink wayward Japanese ship off Alaskan coast
Global Politics
Romney, Gingrich seem poised to be big winners on Super Tuesday