As the U.S., China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communication links with satellites orbiting ...

UTQIAGVIK, Alaska – Utqiagvik, Alaska has seen its last sunrise this year; America’s northernmost settlement will not see the ...

The Trump administration and Congress, seeking to improve security, have approved funding for eight icebreakers and are ...

U.S. Army Soldiers, Marines, and Special Forces conduct cold weather training at Fort Greely, Alaska and Utqiagvik, Alaska ...

This decline of summer sea ice area has a multitude of effects, from changing local ecosystems to allowing more shipping through the Arctic Ocean. It also enhances global warming, because the loss of ...

From the Southeast rainforest to the Arctic tundra, warming conditions are creating a variety of Alaska landslide hazards, some of them posing extreme hazards to human safety and others creating ...

When scientists Patrick Sullivan and Roman Dial were heading to a remote area in the Brooks Range in 2019 to map the spread of woody plants there, they were looking forward to seeing a celebrated ...

A new laser base in Greenland will download data from satellites, as NATO seeks to protect communications from Russia and ...

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The U.S. military says it is moving quickly to strengthen its presence in Arctic waters after a new Department of ...

The Department of Homeland Security says this year has seen an "unprecedented" presence of Chinese military and research ...