Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of ...

Regional lands are known for their tundra valleys filled with grasses, plants and bushes, not a 10-foot tree in sight. But ...

A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users -- the West Philippine Sea. The Philippine government's preferred name ...

The move comes after several years of efforts across the country, including in Alaska, to drop words and names with derogatory connections from maps, buildings and civic institutions. Michael ...

We prepared time series of MaxNDVI through 2023 for the tundra domain of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (Raynolds et al ... observations were sparse in the early part of the record for Alaska ...

Least Sandpiper breeds further south than any other Nearctic Calidris sandpiper, nesting in northern boreal forest and subarctic tundra across North America. It winters mainly from the southern United ...

The development of oil projects in Alaska’s North Slope and Arctic is boosting jobs growth in these areas more than the average for the state, according to the latest figures by the Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It takes time and energy to change a name on a map. Michael Livingston, an Anchorage-based historian, knows about the work firsthand. Last April, he began the process of ...

The Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance (NECB) is a crucial metric for understanding integrated carbon dynamics in Arctic and boreal regions, which are vital to the global carbon cycle. These areas are ...