As Earth warms at a record rate, winters are shorter and milder and there is less snow globally, creating clear challenges ...

Glaciers around the globe are melting at an alarming rate, and it’s not just causing sea levels to rise—it’s actually ...

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Research coming from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder incorporated Indigenous knowledge into their research ...

More rain and wind were forecast Wednesday along the Alaskan coast where two tiny villages were decimated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong and officials were scrambling to find shelter for more than ...

President Donald Trump's second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables -- yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel ...

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated. By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman Five months before catastrophic floods swept through ...

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump ...

Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm surge that flooded villages as far as 60 miles up the river. The water pushed homes ...

Students walk past a school bus outside Juneau-Doublas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Aug. 15, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep) The Alaska Board of Education unanimously voted to send a proposed regulation ...

Robyn Barbato, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, drills into subsurface permafrost at the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in Fox, Alaska.