The Coast Guard has commissioned its newest and sixth Arctic District Fast Response Cutter (FRC), Coast Guard Cutter Frederick Mann (WPC 1160), for official entry into its service fleet during a ...

Wildfires in Arctic Alaska now outrun anything the region has seen in the last 3,000 years, according to a new reconstruction ...

Last September, I traveled to this far north outpost as part of a research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As temperatures rise, the timing of the ice thaw changes. Vincent Denarie via Arctic Report Card The Arctic is transforming faster ...

This month, the soldiers of the 11th Airborne Division are engaging in the annual Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou Herd ...

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...

Federal regulators have rejected Hilcorp’s attempt to gain more time to develop Liberty, an offshore Arctic oil prospect that has languished since being discovered in the 1990s. The Bureau of Safety ...

It may be the most enduring love story in the shorebird world, two birds coming together from different parts of the ...

Russian and Chinese military incursions near Alaska prompt major U.S. defense investments, including reopening Adak base and ...

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