Environment

City officials in Juneau, Alaska, have issued an emergency declaration as a glacier lake outburst flood wreaks havoc near the city, where structures have been destroyed. The flooding is due…

Brussels, Frankfurt (28/9 – 28) The conflict in Ukraine has held the world’s attention for a year and a half; now that it has apparently settled into an extended slugfest…

Last week a study out of Belgium found that paper straws were so full of so-called “forever chemicals” that researchers weren’t convinced they were any more sustainable than the plastic…

Indigenous communities are leading worldwide push to recognise legal ‘personhood’ rights of rivers, lakes and mountains. Jean-Charles Pietacho says the belief that nature is a living thing that must be…

In 2023, the Trust for the National Mall and the National Park Service unveiled a state-of-the-art project: the U.S. Park Police Horse Stables and Wells Fargo Education Center. Reporting from…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt broadcast from JBER on Monday evening with reports about Alaska’s role and importance in defending the rest of the nation.…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of…

Alaska’s state school board has unexpectedly delayed a vote on a proposed regulation that would prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls high school sports teams. Board chairman James Fields…

Alaska police shot and killed a black bear Sunday night after it was roaming Anchorage neighborhoods and charging at people, police said. Just before 10 p.m. Sunday, the Anchorage Police Department issued a…

An out-of-control blaze burning in northern Washington state exploded in size, crossed the Canadian border and set off a cascade of evacuations over the weekend. The so-called Eagle Bluff Fire…