Fascinated by the unique, divergent paths of the two populations of tundra swans, Ely and others studied which group, ...

The Arctic tundra ... on record for Alaska and it was the second-highest year for wildfire emissions north of the Arctic ...

Daniel Ksepka, the curator of a new display at the Bruce Museum, said he focused on Alaska because it is ‘on the front line’ ...

Each year, the home sinks six inches. When the marshy land engulfed the original flooring from her childhood home, Chase laid ...

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since ... hunt caribou on snowmobiles, even in summer. The treads leave dark trails in the tundra, the blanket of spongy brown and ...

Overwhelming scenery. Overwhelming distances. Overwhelming daylight. Overwhelming adventure. That word — overwhelming — describes the more than 1,400-mile Alaska-Canadian Highway (ALCAN) that links ...

Springtime in Alaska’s high Arctic reveals itself in unique ways ... After a couple of molting sessions, the larvae emerge, dropping to the tundra in late spring to early summer. One month later, the ...

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice is shrinking as the climate warms, and it has been projected that the region will see its first ice-free summer day before 2030. The loss of ice leads ...

RANGE: The Arctic fox has a circumpolar range and is found in the tundra extending through the northernmost regions of Europe, Asia, North America, Greenland, and Iceland. In North America, the Arctic ...