Alaska towers over all the other states with its staggering number of lakes—around 3.2 million in total. This includes 3,197 officially named lakes and millions of unnamed ones. Its vast size ...

Haeussler is a geologist and Alaska coordinator for the Earthquake ... His computer screen generated a real-time map of the lake floor and what was beneath it. On it, Singleton saw evidence ...

The trio of glaciers feeding these lakes—Yakutat, Alsek and Grand Plateau—descend from Alaska's inland mountains to the coastal plain southeast of Yakutat borough. Glaciers are massive ...

The National Park Service said Monday it will evaluate two proposed easements across a portion of Lake Clark National Park that an Alaska Native ... Park Service said. A map shows Cook Inlet ...

NASA is studying "thermokarsts" in Alaska, lakes that appear as permafrost there thaws. These lakes can release high levels of methane, a dangerous gas for climate change. As temperatures rise and ...