Discovery. When Sheldon moved to Alaska 15 years ago, he came across the Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, which lists features of the state’s landscape.About 13 years ago, Sheldon started ...

The Okeanos Explorer team is exploring some of the world’s deepest and most remote waters off the Aleutian Islands. Off Alaska coast, research crew peers down, down, down to map deep and remote ...

The region of Northern Alaska where the object was shot down, near the Arctic Ocean, is home to the largest oil fields in North America. It contains sensitive infrastructure like the Trans-Alaska ...

Seven Ways to Explore Alaska’s Endangered Glacial World With the state’s glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them.

A research vessel motoring off the coast of Alaska is exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor to surface new knowledge about life in some of the world's deepest and most remote waters.