Alaska is on the front lines of climate change ... And when temperatures rise in the state's interior—a vast high-latitude region spanning 113 million acres—permafrost there not only thaws ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

The angle of the sun at Alaska’s high latitude — lower in the sky and present nearly around the clock — is a big factor, Brettschneider said. “The sun angle’s lower, so the sun is ...

Alaska would be on the same time zone as Seattle ... However, because we’re at such a high latitude, it matters a lot less,” he said, explaining that the amount of daylight changes rapidly ...

Alaska would be on the same time zone as Seattle ... However, because we’re at such a high latitude, it matters a lot less,” he said, explaining that the amount of daylight changes rapidly ...