Q: When Alaska was admitted into the Union, in 1959, were Texans upset about losing their status as residents of the biggest state? A: At about 268,596 square miles, Texas has reigned as America ...

Shattering previous records, the sea ice in the Arctic shrank 1 million square miles more this summer than the average melt over 25 years, an area larger than Alaska and Texas combined ...

Galveston, Texas, is built on a barrier island of the Gulf of Mexico 45 miles from Houston. (Ned Rozell) Alaska has a few places ... of 1,240 people per square mile. Maybe there will be more ...

The Pacific island nation of Palau, just east of Indonesia and the Philippines, announced its plan to designate 193,000 square miles ... than the US states Alaska and Texas, combined.