Another adult beluga whale was reported dead in Knik Arm Monday but had not floated ashore.

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

“I expect we’ll see more of this type of thing in the future,” said a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Public Safety,

The virus is causing “the highest concentration of (visible) deformities ever recorded in a wild bird population.”

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A creeping landslide, driven by permafrost thaw, has limited visitor's access to the park since 2021.

Last year, remnants of a typhoon damaged homes, infrastructure and an archaeological dig site. Now, archaeologists are trying to get as many objects out as possible before the next storm.

Earlier this month, the National Park Service celebrated the completion of a $230 million steel truss bridge spanning the active landslide.

This is the second severe issue for the Healy in two years, following an electrical fire in 2024 that also canceled a trip north.

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

Traditionally found in warm climates, like the American Southwest, armadillos have been migrating farther and farther north, researchers say.

Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of the shorebirds’ marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?

In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together

Many of the Aleutian Islands rose at the same time, 5 to 7 million years ago. It was part of a geological event that showed up across the Pacific Rim, according to a study published in June.

Denali National Park officials said visitors will once again be able to travel the park’s 92-mile road after the opening of a 475-foot bridge over the Pretty Rocks landslide area.