Presidential Executive Order #148, in January 1899, had set aside 320 acres of land near Russian Orthodox Church property in the village of Kenai for the creation of an agricultural experiment station ...
Three decades after President Carter added 47 million acres of Alaska to the National Park System, managing those lands remains a complex and highly political effort. For countless millennia, the ...
Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of ...
Forty millennia after they went dormant in Arctic ice, microscopic life forms in Alaska have stirred again, and the planet is already feeling the consequences. In the span of roughly six months, what ...
Firefighters are embarking on an ambitious experiment to stamp out blazes deep in the Alaskan wilderness as a way to avert carbon emissions in what experts say is a seismic shift in thinking in modern ...
The Bering Sea is seen from space on May 15, 2002, in this satellite image captured by NASA's SeaWiFS Project. Varying shades of green indicate the presence of plankton blooms. Bottom trawling is ...