Wind is astonishing. It has no borders, no agenda, no desires, no prejudices. It might caress your face or slap it, but there ...

An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking – considered to be a relatively recent societal curse – are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist ...

Valdez, at the base of the Chugach mountains, sees the most snow of any city in the US. The Aleutian low, or the most common low pressure system, basically camps out in the Chugach all winter, ...

Alaska will not hold an emperor goose hunt for the 2025-2026 season—and potentially for years to come. Both subsistence and sport hunting for the species has been closed after the population threshold ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

An extraordinary opportunity to observe Alaskan brown bears in their natural habitat in Alaska. Based at an exclusive fly-in ...

A bill before the Washington state Senate would make intentional water pollution, air pollution, and spilling of hazardous ...

If you haven't yet checked off Alaska and Hawaii on your quest to visit all 50 states, Holland America Line has the perfect ...

As climate change brings more boats to the Arctic, the U.S.'s need for boats that can cut through the ice has also increased.

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

I’ve always had a fondness for the little clusters of closely related species that evolution can produce. Sometimes it’s a whole genus, like those infuriatingly similar Empidonax flycatchers; ...

Aleutian flies a 50-passenger Saab 2000. Ravn’s Dash-8s offer 25-37 seats. • Valdez: Ravn Alaska flies nonstop from Anchorage — and recently introduced fares as low as $49 each way.