supplemented by a series of four higher resolution maps showing the expedition in four regions of Alaska: the southeast, south central/Gulf coast, the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians, and the ...

Alaska's Mount Spurr is showing signs of renewed activity and scientists have warned that the volcano could soon erupt for the first time in three decades. The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO ...

high-resolution maps of Alaska. He made good on that promise this week with the release of the first set of maps, called Arctic digital elevation models or ArcticDEMs, created through the National ...

But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial ... forecasters and other experts encourage more towns to adopt hazard maps that show what land might be susceptible to sliding.

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

Ben Huff Abby Watts, a college student from Juneau, Alaska, is standing on a nunatak—an exposed ridge above an icefield. All around her are enormous boulders in varying shades of gray.