For decades, caribou have posed a threat to reindeer herders on the Seward Peninsula — their numbers swelling, even as the reindeer population shrinks. Now, a new front has developed in the turf war ...

PILGRIM HOT SPRINGS — On our sixth day of skiing across Alaska's nose, six of us slid along a contour of the Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula. The breeze nibbling our cheeks was taking ...

While the current location of Seward wasn’t the original, the name Seward has been a popular choice for not only places but also businesses and ships.

PILGRIM HOT SPRINGS, Alaska - On a recent ski trip across the Seward Peninsula, I followed a trail along the Pilgrim River broken by five friends. Their path led to a subarctic oasis. Beyond the blank ...

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The left panel shows the near-surface permafrost extent (bluish area, overlaid on satellite imagery) estimated by the most commonly used pan-arctic map product for a site in Alaska. The right panel ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo home site believed to be ...