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It’s difficult to quantify how Trump has changed Alaska in the first 100 days of his term. But here’s what we know.
But no one has drilled deep wells to confirm those theories, so the flats’ subsurface remains something of a geologic enigma. “When I look at the whole map of Alaska, it always catches my eye ...
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Anchorage, Alaska just after midnight on Tuesday as residents have been warned of ...
According to the United States Geological Survey’s database of ... He’s also been steadily working to make Alaska maps more accurate. The explanation he’s come up with for why a creek ...
A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...
A new paper from NASA’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment is offering insights into the evolution of  wildfire activity, ...
Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage energy development on public lands.
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is the largest national park in the United States. Here, you can camp on Root ...
The push would spark an intense legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping lands protections under the 1906 ...
Today he’s an Alaska-based geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey. His team goes out and takes its own annual measurements, but the glaciers they study are much smaller than the Taku.