Those heading up to Alaska for a late spring cruise this week got a heaping dose of weather reality as an atmospheric river ...

Cartographers like Dan Coe battle the notion that everything on the planet has already been mapped. "The world is always ...

Researchers for years have been baffled as rivers and streams across Alaska turned orange, but new research points to climate change as an answer. Scientists suspect the drastic color change is ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com Alaska's rivers and streams are becoming toxic as a strange "milky orange" color stains their waters ...

Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study. The finding ...

Ice jams that blocked two Alaska rivers broke loose ... before retreating Sunday on the Yukon River in the state’s east and the Kuskokwim River in the southwest, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

The Tijuana River in California also ranked among the most endangered rivers because of pollution. In Alaska, the Kobuk River's water quality is threatened by the Ambler Road, a proposed road and ...

A new study shows that rusty discoloration in Alaska’s otherwise pristine streams and rivers is likely due to melting permafrost—and that’s a major problem for Arctic animals and people.

They looked at 75 locations across a section of northern Alaska’s Brooks Range that was about the size of the state of Texas. “The stained rivers are so big we can see them from space ...