Noatak, Alaska, is facing significant challenges, including a river that is now too low for a barge to deliver goods, a shortage of fuel to power vehicles and heat homes, and skyrocketing gas prices.

As ice breaks on the Yukon River, Jake Pogrebinsky looks at the water from shore, searching for a large log floating ...

Last month, Kotzebue had its wettest month on record with more than 5 inches of total precipitation. As rain drenched Northwest Alaska, a small group from Minnesota floated the Noatak River in a ...

The Noatak River next to the town of Noatak, Alaska, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Emma Monroe) Wanda Sue Page had a problem. “My Honda is empty right now for a couple days,” said Page, 59, a ...

Chris Kopczynski waves goodbye to pilot Eric Sieh on July 28, near the headwaters of the Noatak River in Alaska. This is the first in a four-part series about kayaking the Noatak River in the ...

Noatak River, Alaska, July 29 – Despite being hundreds of miles from the nearest road, I can’t stop seeing boat ramps, black asphalt cutting through the steep river-eroded banks of the Noatak ...

About four years ago, Jeffrey Luther noticed something strange along the river near the edge of Noatak in Northwest Alaska. A new channel had formed, branching off from the larger Noatak River.

From Noatak we caught a boat ride down the river and out into the Chukchi Sea to Kotzebue, 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle. This town of some 3,000 people, mostly Iñupiat, sits on a spit of ...

The Noatak River sources in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska, in Gates of the Arctic National Park, and flows 425 miles west-southwest to the Arctic Ocean. The river is unreachable by road and ...

The Taku River, located in Southeast Alaska near Juneau, is close to becoming a flood event due to glacier lake outburst ...

The Salmon River in the Brooks Range runs orange in the early fall of 2020. Credit: Courtesy of Roman Dial Posted in Articles Water Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening ...

Sep. 4—This is the second in a four-part series about kayaking the Noatak River in the Arctic Circle. Noatak River, Alaska, July 29 — Despite being hundreds of miles from the nearest road, I ...