Alaskas

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles (3…

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Mike Williams Jr. doesn’t remember when he started mushing, but once he was strong enough to handle the sled dogs, it became his passion. At…

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy, and in some cases they are becoming…

This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8 years old, his father decided it was about time he started learning to hunt beluga whales. Schaeffer was an Iñupiaq kid…

3/3 © Reuters. The Joe Redington Sr. Memorial Trail, named for the homesteader who was the "Father of the Iditarod," is a ribbon of ice, with some spots of bare pavement, in Wasilla, Alaska, U.S., February 25, 2022. Winter rains, which…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man walking on a shoreline wound up clinging to a chunk of ice for more…

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When you're a swimmer from Alaska, there are some misguided stereotypes that must be laughed off.Lydia Jacoby has surely heard them all before. (TOKYO 2020 COVERAGE)“She practically swims in iced-over lakes,” teammate Gunnar Bentz…

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration."People don't come to Denali and other parks in Alaska to look at bumblebees, but they should,” says Jessica Rykken, entomologist for Denali…