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Parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than most of the rest of the world. That's forcing tough choices for ...
Mike Sfraga resigned — departing his post as Arctic ambassador, like other ambassadors, as Donald Trump took power.
Even though we're used to recognizing Alaska and Hawaii as part of the United States, it's still kind of bizarre that we have ...
A 2D representation of Earth, such as a chart or map, can mislead us when visualizing long international routes.
“When I look at the whole map of Alaska, it always catches my eye, and I always am frustrated that we know so little about it — because it’s mostly burying itself,” Wartes said.
Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer below the Earth's surface found in Arctic regions such as Alaska, Siberia and Canada. It typically consists of soil, gravel and sand bound together by ice ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It takes time and energy to change a name on a map. Michael Livingston, an Anchorage-based historian, knows about the work firsthand. Last April, he began the process of ...
The United States of America should be starting negotiations with China on how to divide Siberia, not thinking about how to save Russia, political strategist Taras Zahorodnii stated this in a comment ...
Job growth is flat across most of Alaska, according to new state data. But the Arctic saw a big spike last year due to progress on oil and gas projects. This month's report from the Alaska ...
The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US soldiers were a familiar sight in Norwegian garrison towns north of the Arctic ...
As many of you probably heard, there was an 8.2-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northern Chile on Tuesday night. As with any earthquake around a coastal region or on the ocean floor, there is ...