KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska company has set its sights on developing a rare-earth element mine by 2016 on southeast Prince of Wales Island. Ucore Rare Metals’ proposed Bokan Mountain Project ...

With the state and nation still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Alaska’s mineral wealth could offer the state a critical lifeline going forward. President Joe Biden may ...

Permafrost. It even sounds intimidating. Permanent frost, forever frozen. Brrrr. Except in our warming planet, the frost is unfreezing, and with it, it is releasing dangerous amounts of greenhouse ...

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over southeastern Alaska to the Malaspina Glacier. The climate and topography of this area over the last 12.5 million years have been favourable for glaciers. During ...

It has been a rainy week in middle Alaska. Blah. But perhaps I judge liquid precipitation a bit harshly. Rain is, after all, the free distribution of a substance more valuable than gold. And, even in ...

The city of Fairbanks, the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and its surroundings, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Visible in the top-left corner of the image, Fairbanks ...

Saturday morning brought something no one in Alaska really wants to wake up to. A powerful earth tore through the region near the Alaska-Canada border, sending shockwaves that reached far beyond the ...

The west coast of the United States will be significantly more at risk from maritime earthquakes and tsunamis after this month. Nine seismic monitoring stations along the Alaskan coast are set to go ...