The area most U.S. Arctic strategists think needs the most immediate development is not Greenland but the Bering Sea, almost ...

The Alaska SeaLife Center provides not just a fascinating attraction but also a place where you can spend hours watching sea creatures without feeling hurried. The town’s library, museum, and ...

Port Klawock has quickly exceeded expectations, achieving rapid growth in cruise calls in just two years, with plans for ...

The story of Typhoon Halong’s destruction in Kipnuk adds an exclamation point to long-simmering fears about the future of ...

Seward sits at the edge of Resurrection Bay, surrounded by the breathtaking mountains of Kenai Fjords National Park. This picturesque town offers residents a relaxed lifestyle with a surprisingly ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

The expansion of Arctic shipping, scramble for seafloor mining and overfishing are all straining international relationships. But the powers of diplomacy go beyond ocean treaties.

Brett Haley's slight, sunny film tips its hat overtly if optimistically to 'When Harry Met Sally,' as it ponders the age-old question of whether straight men and women can maintain platonic relations.

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. During the museum's Adopt-a-Mammoth program, which ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used a New Year’s message on Thursday to reflect on a year of major technical progress — and to argue that the network’s real test lies in fulfilling its original ...

If you’re planning a trip into the Alaskan backcountry, Chris Owens should be your first call. Only 18 percent of Alaska’s land mass is accessible by car. It’s that remoteness—along, of course, with ...

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