A glacial outburst flood is underway on the Taku River south of Juneau. Although water that was held back by glacial ice is ...

The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It's called the National Petroleum Reserve ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

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

But the Noatak River’s water levels have since dropped so low that the utility can now only fly in the fuel. There are no roads to Noatak, and the closest city, Kotzebue, population 3,000, is ...

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 ...

For his book “Into the Thaw,” Jon Waterman and a photographer traveled over 500 miles by foot and pack raft, visiting various communities along the 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 ...

More than 40 years ago, the then park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey to Alaska’s Noatak River. Captivated by the profusion of wildlife, the rich habitat, and the unfamiliar landscape ...

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.

O’DONNELL: These observations that we have sort of span from the lower Noatak River Basin, in the West, all the way to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the east. So it’s a you know, over ...