Alaska

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Whale bones in Barrow Alaska

Barrow, Alaska: Ground Zero for Climate Change

Scientists converge on the northernmost city in the United States to study global warming's dramatic consequences
March 2010 | By Bob Reiss

Mount McKinley Denali National Park

Alaska's Great Wide Open

A land of silvery light and astonishing peaks, the country's largest state perpetuates the belief that anything is possible
November 2009 | By Pico Iyer

Fall chum

For Salmon Fishermen, It’s Fall Chum to the Rescue

For the Yup'ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world
October 01, 2008 | By Kim O’Donnel

Interview: Steven Amstrup

A new study spotlights the plight of the polar bear, but there's still time to help the beloved creature
November 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

A view of St. Augustine, in Alaska, on January 12, 2006, a day between two eruptions.

Volcanic Lightning

As sparks flew during the eruption of Mount St. Augustine in Alaska, scientists made some new discoveries
February 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

town of Sitka

Destination America: Sitka

A tradition-rich village lies at the doorstep of a vast Alaskan wilderness
May 2006 | By Joshua Brockman

Raymond Tritt

ANWR: The Great Divide

The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve
October 2005 | By Scott Wallace

Baked Alaska

A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming
August 2005 | By Laura Helmuth

A Puzzle In the Pribilofs

On the remote Alaskan archipelago, scientists and Aleuts are trying to find the causes of a worrisome decline in fur seals
March 2005 | By Doug O'Harra

Herd on the the Street

In Anchorage, Alaska, you never know when a moose will show up on your doorstep
December 2004 | By Jim Doherty

George Bird Grinnell said of the natives (Eskimos in Plover Bay, Siberia) he met: "Until the White men came, they lived well."

North to Alaska

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward Harriman invited some of the most preeminent scientists in America to join him on a working cruise to Alaska, then largely unexplored. More than a century later, the nation still has reasons to be grateful.
June 2003 | By Ken Chowder

Ice Capades

Alaska's husband-and-wife team of avalanche experts work to save lives all winter, then take to their kayaks in summer
March 2003 | By Michael Ryan

Cruise to Alaska

Visiting the 49th state by sea means you're in for scenic grandeur and grand hotel comfort
June 01, 2001 | By Michael Parfit

When Permafrost Isn't

Slowly rising temperatures are melting the frozen ground that underlies most land at high latitudes
February 2000 | By Bernice Wuethrich


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