The nation’s northernmost town — Utqiagvik, Alaska — is about to descend into months of darkness. Think of it this way: By the time the sun rises again, a new president will occupy the White ...

In 1931, the SS Baychimo, a cargo ship owned by the Hudson Bay Company, became trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Despite efforts to free her, she vanished into the frozen Arctic sea, but ...

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. discovered it in the ... the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a separate drill ship in the Chukchi Sea, west of Point Barrow and ...

Last month, less sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean than in any other July ... Iñupiat Corporation in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. For Aarons, the reality hit long ago, and the question ...

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973 ... After the C-130 landed, Donald “Nok” Acker of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), a nonprofit research ...

were there to conduct Artic Ocean seafloor mapping near Alaska and survey uncharted waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Then, they found a new volcano-like formation deep in the ocean ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon Nov 18, 2024 Nov 18, 2024 Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a volcano-like ...

An industrial community near the Arctic Ocean that supports Alaska’s North Slope oil fields hit a record 89 degrees Fahrenheit this week, the warmest temperature Deadhorse has seen in more than ...

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ... including Drew Point in Alaska, the Mackenzie River Delta in Canada and parts of Siberia, where local impacts include ocean acidification and adverse ...