Weather

On Monday, a fire disabled Emmonak’s sewage treatment plant, leaving the city unable to provide sewer service to hundreds of homes in the village.

As average temperatures rise, two University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers are mapping permafrost’s impact on Alaska. Vladimir Romanovsky and David McGuire are members of a team working to identify worldwide regions susceptible to thermokarst.

Cuts to state and federal heating assistance programs hit rural, urban Alaska differently

Months of severe drought are causing water shortages and wildfires, particularly in Alabama and Georgia. The USDA has designated part of Georgia a disaster area for farmers.

The masses of balls that appeared along 11 miles of coast in western Siberia were snowy and icy. Some of them were small, and some were quite large.

This late in the fall, the Arctic Ocean sea ice should be forming near the community of Barrow. Instead, the ocean is open for hundreds of miles.