Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of beavers work over some branches in shallow water south of Glennallen in central Alaska.Ken Tape Beavers are invading ...

Wildfires in Arctic Alaska now outrun anything the region has seen in the last 3,000 years, according to a new reconstruction ...

During a month of endless summer light, a mated pair of shorebirds teaches their four chicks how to catch insects. The babies grow fat and strong on the tundra high in northeastern Alaska. They are ...

Northern Alaska, long viewed as a frozen buffer against fire, is now breaking records that reach deep into prehistory. New ...

Two bull caribou of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd swimming across the Kobuk River during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. The herd has been in decline since hitting its peak ...

Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote ...

A lightning-sparked fire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope in eight years. The Ikpikpuk Fire, which bears the name of a 195-mile ...

A tundra wildfire continued to creep closer to an Alaska Native community in southwest Alaska, but mandatory evacuations have not been ordered, fire officials said Sunday. The East Fork fire was ...

Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska. Not too long ago, Alaska scientists discovered more about where the ...

Beavers are taking over the Alaskan tundra, completely transforming its waterways, and accelerating climate change in the Arctic. The changes are so sudden and drastic that they're clearly visible ...