The bears won’t hibernate if food remains available, so the continued availability of trash in the area has created a dangerous situation, biologists say.

New rules to combat sea lice have angered Norway’s important aquaculture industry. But environmental groups want to go much further.

Fiji and other Pacific island nations are vulnerable to rising seas that have flooded villages and forced residents to abandon their homes.

Near record stretch of foggy days at Ted Stevens International Airport.

Climate change could be just another challenge for the gray-cheeked thrush and other distinct species.

This is the second longest period of visibility remaining this low at the Anchorage Airport.

The Kenai Municipal Airport and the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport have both experienced heavy delays, cancellations, and re-routed flights over the past week. 

This is the second year in a row that people from Chuathbaluk are able to use boats (skiffs) on the Kuskokwim River in November.

Shorter periods of sea ice on Hudson Bay as a result of climate change translate into fewer polar bears in Churchill region.

The number of outages is down from a peak of 484,000 statewide after winds and rain ravaged the region Monday morning.

Tissue from the recent necropsy on a humpback whale remains on Kincaid beach

There was no evidence of physical harm to the eight-legged creatures, but there was still plenty of concern as to why they were all abandoning their regular ocean home.

One important factor is the depth of the lake. But there are other variables too.

Life in Bristol Bay’s villages is expensive. For Port Heiden residents, a gallon of shelf stable milk costs more than 20 dollars. Fresh milk isn’t available because it would take too long to ship. But they’re working on improving their access to fresh foods by producing their own.

More open water on rivers and lakes that add to the near-ground moisture.

A heavy fog that rolled into Anchorage in time for Halloween is expected to persist into Thursday afternoon.

If the winter gives you ice, then it's time to go ice skating! Backcountry skating is the practice of hunting for wild ice, whether on on a river, lake, glacial lagoon, or inside an ice cave. Filmed in Southcentral and Southeast Alaska.

Alaska is considered to be outside the range of cougars (also called mountain lions and panthers), but with cougar populations increasing in many western states and Canada, that could change.

A 1990 elk management plan recommended 100 animals as a reasonable number, based on resources available for the animals, Cathers said. But that number has since ballooned, causing more agricultural conflicts. Part of the problem goes back to 2008, when elk wintered in fenced off enclosures after winter ticks were discovered.