For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming ...

An abundance of natural resources, faster trade routes and military advantages have powers around the globe vying for a slice ...

Grynkewich stated at Sweden’s National Security Conference that Russia and China are escalating joint patrols in the Arctic, ...

The northernmost subpopulation of grizzlies is made up of only a few hundred bears spread out over a large, food-scarce ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou Herd ...

The Arctic is transforming faster and with more far-reaching consequences than scientists expected just 20 years ago, when the first Arctic Report Card assessed the state of Earth’s far northern ...

Not so long ago, the Arctic—a remote and thinly populated region stretching from Alaska to Siberia—seemed immune to the kind ...

The person who represents the nation’s northernmost legislative district in the Alaska House of Representatives is tasked with achieving a special balance. Sprawling and remote House District 40 ...