Scientists have reactivated 40,000-year-old microbes from thawing Alaskan permafrost, raising concerns about their potential to release greenhouse gases. The organisms, dormant since the Ice Age, ...

AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last ...

“Barrow is ground zero for climate-change science,” Itta said. “We worry that climate change is shrinking the sea ice and we don’t know how that will affect the animals that depend on it. At this time ...

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973. This monument made of whale bones is to lost sailors. Associated Press No roads lead to Barrow, Alaska. To reach America’s ...