How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

Alaska, often referred to as the last frontier, is at the forefront of climate change, with regions experiencing dramatic ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

A polar vortex is currently hitting the United States, with schools closed in many areas and at least four deaths caused by ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...