Digging up Alaska’s volcanic secrets
Alaska is home to 50 volcanoes that have erupted since written records began in 1760. To a geologist, though, those 250 years of records are nothing. To look further back, they dig.
How to document your Alaska adventure
Four people who've spent a lot of time in the Alaska outdoors with notebooks and camera gear can help inspire you on your next adventure.
Too many pink salmon in Kachemak Bay?
If Alaska expands how many pink salmon its hatcheries — such as the one in Tutka Bay — produce, will there be unintended consequences that harm Kachemak Bay?
When Alaska shellfish turns deadly
Alaskans have been eating shellfish forever, in an uncomfortable, myth-ridden relationship with an invisible risk.
The art of wilderness mooching: Giving thanks for anything edible
After hiking and paddling thousands of miles across Alaska, the author has perfected the art of ravenous mooching.
Kachemak Bay has seen massive die-offs of sea stars and other species. What’s going on?
Katie Aspen Gavenus, a naturalist with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, was one of the first to notice the dying sea stars.
Sharing the wild: Cutting a new trail to a lonely destination on Kachemak Bay
Cutting a trail through the woods to a gorgeous spot in the state park: Commendable volunteer effort? Or ruinous to wilderness?
Collapsing Alaska mountains: Southeast landslides and tsunamis on the rise
In Southeast Alaska, landslides are occurring more frequently, some unleashing fearsome tsunamis.
See for yourself: Alaska's disappearing glaciers, then and now
Same glacier, same spot, same angle, just a few years apart. Notice any difference?
Why home schooling works in Alaska
More than 11,000 Alaska children, some 9 percent of the school-age population, are signed up with one of the state's 30 official home-school programs. That's a minimum number, not counting the families who home-school independently.
Following Alaska's vanishing ice
It was the middle of March, nearly a year ago. My family of four had flown into Nome around the time a lot of people fly to Nome. Iditarod fans filled the streets. But I was a hundred yards offshore of downtown.
Welcome to Umnak, a land of cows that assaults the senses
Umnak Island is part of the Fox Islands in the Aleutian chain, one step farther west than Unalaska. Population: 22 humans, 7,500 cows.