Bristol Bay is the richest commercial fishery in America’s biggest fishing state, thanks to the fact that it is a habitat for huge numbers of salmon (Photo: echoforsberg) Sockeyes are the more commercially valuable salmon species, but rules to protect Chinook that...
The landslide at Pretty Rocks, at about the halfway point of the Denali National Park road, is seen on 5 May. The project to install a new bridge that will allow the road to reopen is challenging because of geologic and logistical complexities, which include ice-rich...
Where the rock revetment ends, homes and infrastructure face a high risk of erosion during storms. During Typhoon Merbok, volunteers gathered a new pile of boulders to try to protect homes (Photo: Janet Mitchell) Arctic sea ice loss and fierce storms leave Kivalina’s...
Iñupiat observers help scientists by providing details about natural phenomenon, such as this fall flood (Photo: AAOKH) Since 2006, an Inuit community in Alaska has been using a platform created by scientists to document how their region is changing. The experiment is...
Alaska’s state environmental authorities will now be responsible for protecting its tundra landscapes and other waterways that are not connected to navigable waters (Photo: Andrea Pokrzywinski) It will now be up to US states to determine how wetland areas should be...
