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

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.

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 ...

On the Noatak, we had to steer our rafts wide around thawing riverbanks as stones fell and silt rained down into the river. Our drinking water filter repeatedly plugged up from the dislodged sediment.

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 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 ...