A polar bear walks along the shore in Alaska on Sept. 6, 2019. (Photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A polar bear found dead on Alaska’s North Slope is the first of the species ...

Previously in Alaska, the only moose that were screened for rabies were those showing neurologic signs, but after this new case, Fish and Game plans to test all dead or euthanized wild mammals ...

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The United States will start a new environmental review of oil and gas leasing in an Alaska wildlife refuge, it said on Tuesday,a process that may determine the fate of drilling parcels handed out ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

The Alaska-Yukon subspecies (A. alces gigas), of which there are between 175,000 and 200,000 individuals in Alaska, is the bulkiest of these antlered creatures and can weigh up to 1,600 pounds ...

Passage of the Alaska Statehood Act in 1959 gave Alaska control over fish and wildlife resources within the state, with the exception of those on federal lands “withdrawn or otherwise set apart ...

They were common murres, sleek black-and-white seabirds that typically spend months at a time away from land. But in 2015 and 2016, officials tallied 62,000 emaciated corpses from California to ...

A polar bear walks along the shore in Alaska on Sept. 6, 2019. A different animal discovered dead in October near Utqiagvik is now confirmed to be the world's first documented case of highly ...