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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

10 p.m. Tuesdays on the Discovery Channel Episode: May 20, "Alaska Bites Back" Delirious, cold and isolated describe the state of the volunteers on the Discovery Channel's "The Alaska Experiment." ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has embarked on a $29 million science experiment to drill into a reservoir of methane hydrate in Alaska, which looks like ice but burns like a candle if a match warms its ...

Could climate change take forests back in time? Kenai Peninsula residents and scientists see evidence that warmer weather is bringing back at least one tree that hasn’t populated Alaska for millions ...

A school district just north of Anchorage, Alaska, has more than 11,000 students in class. While there have been some coronavirus cases, the... 'The Big Experiment': Alaska School District Returns To ...

As Alaskans debate Gov. Mike Dunleavy's budget cuts, a different state occasionally enters the conversation to serve as a kind of cautionary tale: Kansas. In 2012, Kansas also had a newly elected ...