alaska, Tag

As my group wanders through the sulfur-smelling greenhouse, looking at tomatoes growing in vertical hangers and a room with 33 types of lettuce, I feel the pull of the huge natural hot springs outside...

According to climate researcher Nancy Fresco, Alaska could have the potential to feed itself by 2100 - but lots of government intervention is required to kickstart Alaska's agricultural revolution.

Some of the recent winter seasons in Alaska have been warmer-than-normal, but this year is getting off to a very different start with persistent intense cold in the 49th state...

Many scientists have closely measured and studied glaciers throughout Alaska, and the conclusions have always been the same. Alaskan glaciers, which grew enormously during the Little Ice Age, began rapid retreat during the...

Otters are notoriously cute animals... until they attack your Labradoodle and pull her under the water. Such is the behavior of some decidedly not cute Alaskan otters, who may possibly be afflicted with rabies.[...]

During his administration, President Trump approved a massive oil drilling project in Alaska. Now a federal judge has reversed his move. Judge Sharon Gleason of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska ruled...

The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed humpback whales in Alaska to enjoy some peace, according to a new study. Researchers say that reduction in noise caused by cruise ships is to thank for the positive changes being witnessed...

Last Thursday, boaters and locals helped rescue a stranded orca whale on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. Boaters found the 20-foot-long mammal stuck in a 4-foot-long rock crevice on the rocky shore. The boaters first alerted...

DoJ says decision to approve project in northern Alaska was ‘reasonable and consistent’ and should be allowed to go ahead

Leave the technology-ridden world behind for a little while to sink down into the Alaskan landscape. The visitor center at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has 8,000 square feet of space, so visitors and locals alike can...

Mountain glacier melt contributes more than a quarter of extra volume to the world’s oceans, disrupting ancient cycles of creation

In summary, along with Canada, Alaska and Sweden, also Finland, France and Ireland have been showing no March warming.

Bureau of Land Management begins ‘call for nominations’Coastal plain region home to many vital wildlife habitatsIn a last-ditch attempt to make good on promises to the oil and gas industry, the Trump administration is...

Scientists have warned that Alaska and other cold, mountainous places worldwide could experience tsunamis due to the melting of permafrost. As the permafrost melts, it can no longer hold the mountains together, leading to...

Interior department to auction leases before year’s endCritics condemn plan to drill in America’s ‘last great wilderness’The Trump administration is taking the final steps to let oil and gas companies drill in the...