Alena Naiden

In Southeast Alaska, the changing climate means more deadly landslides, and in Anchorage, more heavy-snowfall events, according to Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy's report.

The North Slope Borough mayor and assembly members can now use borough funds to pay for travel expenses for their family members when the borough officials go on business trips.

From left, Shem Rose Koonooka, the Yupik teacher for John Apangalook School in Gambell, and Qaġġuna Tenna Pili, director of Inupiaq education for

The Selawik National Wildlife Refuge staff hosted a First Friday-style event in Kotzebue on Dec. 6 to present the new sign.

UAF researchers are working to create an early warning alert system using the sea ice radar that has been showing ice conditions in Utqiaġvik for over a decade.

Share Landslides, heavy snowfall, flooding and wildfires aren’t uncommon in Alaska. But as the oceans and atmosphere grow warmer, such extreme events and disasters are becoming more frequent across the state, a new report says.

Larissa Schierholt will represent Alaska in the 2025 Miss Earth USA Pageant with a goal to bring awareness to the warming of the Arctic.

Sculptor Paul Hannis sits next to his snow sculpture in Utqiagvik on Dec. 16, 2024. The sculpture that reflects cooperation through subsistence will be completed by Blue Christmas event on Saturday.

This year, biologists couldn't count the Western Arctic Caribou Herd population, which has been drastically declining for years.

Utqiaġvik residents held a candlelight vigil around a newly created snow sculpture and honored their lost loved ones during Blue Christmas. Photo by Lorenzo Chi.