UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage ...

The polar regions are the coldest places on Earth. During the summer, the poles receive 24 hours of sunlight, but during the winter the sun is rarely visible. Animals that inhabit nature’s freezers ...

More than 37,000 citizen scientists have joined the Walrus From Space project, with the hopes of helping walruses ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - The U.S. Coast Guard reports rescuing two fishermen after their vessel capsized off Alaska on Wednesday afternoon. The agency’s command center said it originally received a distress ...

According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing areas are dotted around Alaska, Canada's Northwest Territories, and Siberia. 20 of the most vulnerable ...

Researchers are hoping to understand how walruses in the central Canadian Arctic react to shipping noise in the waters around them. That work is led by a master's student at the University of ...

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A walrus calf was seen wandering around in Northern Alaska, about four miles inland from the Beaufort Sea, all by himself! With his mother nowhere to be found, the Alaska SeaLife Center took the poor ...

This phenomenon has left both scientists and the local communities of Alaska puzzled. However, groundbreaking research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has finally ...

Shutterstock The Most Isolated Towns in the Last Frontier You won’t find many places more remote than these small towns in ...

President-elect Donald Trump appears “very sympathetic” to requests to issue an executive order reversing many of President Joe Biden’s energy policies in Alaska, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska ...

Iggiagruk Hensley is affiliated with: Chair, First Alaskans Institute, Vice Chair, Aqqaluk Trust, member of the Democratic Party, Vice Chair, Charter College, Professor, University of Alaska ...