A marine heat wave of historic proportions between 2014 and 2016 has caused the most extensive die-off of a single seabird ...

Amazingly, this multitude of life is found in the icy cold, dark waters below the gray, often stormy surface of Alaska's oceans. Most people are surprised to learn of Alaska's wide variety of corals, ...

An Alaska seabird species faced the worst mortality event in modern history, and the population isn’t rebounding, a study ...

Average seas in the Bering Sea have around 10- to 20-foot waves ... Before heading up to Alaska, the ship loads up with three months' worth of food. Even so, it's hardly necessary.

A dozen of these were elevated to federal disasters. From deadly landslides in Southeast Alaska to Typhoon Merbok along the Bering Sea coast, all regions of the state have been affected.

A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by scientist Jim Bodkin. Click image for a larger view. Ironically, it is the otter's fur that brought the animal to the brink of extinction.

It's been months since the disappearance of the Maynard family in Alaska, and no trace of them has been found since by ...

(Photo by Ned Rozell) A mysterious bump on the Alaska sea floor. Kendal Hobbs of Oregon State University stood by her poster one afternoon with the hope that educated passersby could help her ...

Anyone who’s ever visited Alaska knows just how hard it ... or spawning salmon in the estuaries. Eagles, sea otters, and ...

Rescuers are looking for an entangled sea creature after it disappeared soon after being spotted in an Alaska inlet ... entanglement was “potentially life-threatening,” the release said.