National Park Service rangers recovered the body of a ski mountaineer on Wednesday who fell 3,000 feet to his death off the West Buttress of Denali.
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Climber missing after fall from Denali, rangers say
Bad weather has halted a search for a 41-year-old mountaineer who remains missing after falling Monday off the West Buttress of Denali.
A Trump proposal to redefine ‘harm’ could have outsized consequences in Alaska
It’s a step in the Trump administration’s broader plan to roll back environmental regulations to remove barriers from energy and resource development — one that many environmental scientists in Alaska say they’re unsettled about.
Arctic sea ice has been hitting record lows. Scientists just lost a critical tool for studying it.
According to an internal budget document, the Trump administration is seeking to end nearly all of NOAA’s climate research.
6 beers, 1 plane: Alaska Supreme Court says aircraft forfeiture is not an excessive fine in bootlegging case
Pending further appeals, Friday’s decision means Fairbanks pilot Kenneth Jouppi must give up his Cessna 206 as punishment for ignoring beer loaded onto a flight routed to the dry village of Beaver in 2012.
A stargazer’s dream: For the next 2 weeks, NASA will be shooting rockets at the aurora
It’s part of an experiment called “AWESOME,” which seeks to observe how auroras affect Earth’s upper atmosphere.