Mount Spurr is not the kind of lava-spewing volcano familiar from Hawaii, but instead has historically ejected huge plumes of ...

Scientists are keeping a close eye on three US volcanoes after their threat levels rose Thursday, suggesting eruptions may be ...

If you haven't yet checked off Alaska and Hawaii on your quest to ... Then it travels down the Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor, a major fishing community that you might know from Deadliest ...

Escape city life by visiting this remote Alaskan island with few trees but plenty of rugged beauty. Plus, discover the region ...

Volcanoes are nature’s dramatic expressions of Earth's inner turmoil, shaping landscapes and influencing climates. Some countries, particularly those along the Pacific Ring of Fire , experience ...

At Mass MoCA, Ohan Breiding's "Belly of a Glacier" offers a poetic eulogy for the Rhone Glacier, blending personal memory, ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Ostereich and Peller – having just claimed first and second place in Thursday’s Park Elementary School National Geographic Bee – revealed the secret of their success to the Leader. “I just like to ...

Leaders of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays residents dividends and finances public services, wanted to invest in Alaska ...

About 90% of earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which stretches all the way from New Zealand, up through Indonesia and Japan, across the Pacific at Alaska's Aleutian Islands ...

Shutterstock “America’s Last Frontier” is the perfect description for Alaska. The state has some of the most untamed landscapes in the US, from the continent’s highest peaks to its largest glaciers, ...