Threats to Alaska’s bees: climate, habitat, and a changing North

On a still June morning in Interior Alaska, a bumblebee clings to a wild rose petal, waiting for the sun to warm the air ...

Alaska’s native bees: tough, diverse and built for the North

If you kneel in a patch of early summer tundra and listen closely, you may hear a faint, steady buzz rising from the mosses ...
Alaska Public Media

An expansion underway at the Alaska Native Heritage Center includes a new healing garden and a subsistence kitchen

A group of Alaska Native Dancers perform for tourists at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Native Heritage Center ...
The Cool Down on MSN

Alaska's invasive green crabs surge north, officials say watch for the '5-3-5' shell

Trap counts are now more than 50 times higher than they were when the species was first identified.
E&E

Army Corps clears the way for Alaska road through wildlife refuge

Residents of a remote coastal community have long sought the gravel road, which is opposed by environmentalists who say it will destroy important migratory bird habitat. The Trump administration has ...
Hyperallergic

The Alaska Native Heritage Center Is a Home of Ancestral Knowledge

The Alaska Native Heritage Center entrance (photo by Jesse Darling, all images courtesy the Alaska Native Heritage Center, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of ...
PBS

Alaska Natives Before Statehood

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...
NPR

Sometimes overlooked by campaigns, Native voters could decide major elections in 2024

Grassroots efforts to get Native American voters to turn in their ballots for the 2024 election are in motion across swing states as Democrats and Republicans are both vying for power. There are ...