Passengers simmered in Jacuzzis and feasted on gourmet cuisine this summer as the 850-foot cruise ship Crystal Serenity moved through the Northwest Passage. But in the summer of 1778, when Capt ...

How Capt. James Cook’s intricate 1778 records reveal global warming today in Arctic Originally published November 16, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated November 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage used 1,000 years ago to store salmon, moose, caribou, and berries.

Alaska is home to spectacularly beautiful scenery. From the iconic wildlife of Katmai National Park to the vast, rugged wilderness of America's least-crowded national park, Gates of the Arctic ...

NOAA's vessel Fairweather has embarked on a 30-day survey to chart Alaska waters that have not been measured since the days of Captain James Cook in 1778.

For more than 200 years, he determined, the ice almost always reached the southern line where Cook found it in 1778. But starting in the 1990s, that dependable pattern melting and reforming ice ...