Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of tundra to use as fuel for heat, as the frozen grass was soaked with ...

On Jan. 23, 1971, a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp measured a temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The Alaska House has voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in southwest suburban Lemont are taking a close look at how that Arctic weather is ...

When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way ...