Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons ...

Plant growth usually follows predictable limits set by latitude and seasonal daylight. Alaska exists outside that pattern because during peak summer months, large parts of the state experience nearly ...

Nearly every state sets aside a month to celebrate its native plants. In the Lower 48, that month is April. For obvious reasons, that doesn’t work so well in Alaska. Starting in 2023, by formal ...

Last year I attended a summer conference in Minnesota. We toured some really huge commercial facilities, greenhouses, propagation rooms and associated potting and shipping areas. It was really, really ...

Wake up, Taakw eetí is almost here! Black bear is yawning, marmot has left her burrow, and spotted frog is groggy. Humans are cleaning out closets, rearranging furniture and shaking out rugs. We clean ...

Autumn visits like an old friend every year. The crisp cold air brushes my face as I breathe in the earthy decay of leaves that tell us winter is getting closer. I stretch to reach the next handful of ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Healy Unit 2, Alaska’s largest coal plant, sits near Healy Canyon, just north of Denali National Park in Alaska’s Interior. When it was built ...

Volunteers work in Anchorage’s Tikishla Park on Aug. 19 to pull out invasive chokecherry trees, also known as European bird cherry trees. The volunteers were participating in a “weed smackdown” that ...

A young moose trudging through the snow looking for a meal spotted green plants in the lobby of a medical building in the Providence Alaska Health Park and decided to drop in for a dose of greenery.

Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons license) The fishing fleet in the Southwest Alaska town of King Cove ...