Subpolar Alaska experienced its hottest day on record this week, with temperatures exceeding 32ºC in Anchorage. The surroundings of the largest city, home to 40% of the state's population, are filled with smoke from forest fires, and rivers are overflowing with meltwater. The previous record was not...

On Saturday, F-22 fighters from the US Air Force intercepted two Russian atomic strategic bombers near Alaska, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed. The incident took place outside the sovereign US airspace right before the largest Russian military exercise in modern history, writes Business Insider. ...

Paleontologists from the United States found an unusual northern dinosaur from among the hadrosaurs in Alaska in the vicinity of the Colville River, which lived in a very cool climate and was probably a warm-blooded creature that survived sub-zero temperatures without migrating south. “The discovery of the duck-billed dinosaur is...