Advocates in Alaska's Interior warned a proposed gold mine on the Johnson Tract in Lake Clark National Park threatens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunrise over Prince of Wales Island, Craig Ranger District, Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (Forest Service photo by Brian Barr) ...

Reports provide a synthesis of current conditions and trends in indicators of ecosystem health. NOAA Fisheries has released the 2023 Ecosystem Status Reports for the eastern Bering Sea, Aleutian ...

A third volume in a series of special issue journals was recently released highlighting research findings in the Gulf of Alaska. This special issue journal is titled Understanding Ecosystem Processes ...

Increased warming in high-latitude wetlands seems poised to increase the activity of methanogens, or methane-producing microbes. These ecosystems are complex places, however, making outcomes hard to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unuk River is one of the transboundary watersheds of Southeast Alaska. (U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center photo) Unuk ...

In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together ...

The waters off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands registered the warmest winter temperatures in over a century, part of a decade-long period of warming, according to a report issued by the National Oceanic and ...

Michael Roman, chair, is a professor at Horn Point Environmental Laboratories at the University System of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Sciences. His research interests are biological ...

The greatest bald eagle migration on Earth happens in the Alaskan village of Haines. The greatest bald eagle congregation on Earth happens in southeastern Alaska in the village of Haines just before ...

Three interrelated elements must be defined when setting the scope of a science plan in order to focus attention and resources on a practical subset of the vast array of possible research questions.