Return to crash site is emotional, healing
Jones remembers the impact, and suddenly skidding to a stop, the plane upside-down.
Why are spruce trees turning orange in the Alaska Range?
The answer to the Tang-colored mystery involves tiny spruce needle rust fungus spores that also rely on Labrador tea plants to survive.
When a field-work trip goes awry on top of a volcano in the Aleutians
On top of Okmok Volcano in the Aleutians, geophysicist Guy Tytgat found shelter -- but not much rest -- in a tiny seismic station.
Remembering the glaciologist whose research on the Greenland ice sheet, where he died, showed dramatic changes
That Konrad Steffen, a man with decades of walking and working and sleeping on glaciers, died in a crevasse shows that anything can happen.
Rare white orca spotted in Southeast Alaska
Fewer than 10 have been recorded worldwide, according to the graduate student who documented the orca sighting near Petersburg.
Bears alert scientists to secret salmon streams
When researchers for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve started studying northern grizzly bears, they found the remains of salmon carcasses and bear scat containing fish bones and gills.
A look at the banana slugs that ooze over coastal Alaska
Pacific banana slugs can grow to the lengths of pencils in the warm weather of California. In colder climates, they likely hibernate underground in winter.
In 1981, scientists predicted an earthquake like the one that rattled the Alaska Peninsula this week
They described the area as a swath of one of the world’s great subduction zones that had not ruptured in a long time — and it was perhaps due.
How the unusual behavior of 2 major rivers shaped life and history in Interior Alaska
Without the Delta and Nenana rivers cutting north through the Alaska Range, life in Alaska's subarctic would be very different.
Granite tors are evidence of ice-free Alaska
Despite many years of wind and water eroding softer materials away, granite tors have endured.
An examination of animals that travel thousands of miles each year, in Alaska and beyond
From caribou to wolves, some animals log upwards of 3,000 miles a year.
Appreciating rain during Alaska’s all-too-brief summer
Some parts of the state are experiencing a rainy stretch. Looking at the driest and wettest parts of Alaska, we still fall short of global extremes.