studied the impact of climate change on mercury release from permafrost in Alaska’s Yukon River Basin. According to NASA, ...

Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby ...

“So there’s an enormous amount of mercury sitting in these frozen soils where climate ... only USC and university partners but also the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, an ...

decompose and become part of the frozen ground. As this permafrost thaws, mercury is released into the environment. The Yukon river, which flows through Alaska towards the Bering Sea, plays a ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring substance, but mercury pollution is often human-caused. When ingested, the silvery metal can ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - As break up season comes to an end we find ourselves with warmer waters in the interior compared to other parts of the state. On the north slope, the Colville and ...

It is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America, experts say A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the ... found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region ...

“So there’s an enormous amount of mercury sitting in these frozen soils where climate ... only USC and university partners but also the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, an ...

A 2022 drone image of the Yukon River and its floodplain downstream ... Permafrost is a layer of soil and rock that remains frozen for at least two consecutive years. It is found in polar regions ...

In Depth As Yukon River chinook disappear, so does a way of life More recently, some communities have begun to hold fish camps by flying in frozen salmon. That way, young people can learn from ...

On a trip to the Yukon, writer Debbie Olsen experiences the beauty and bounty of Canada’s westernmost territory—and learns ...

After 130 days split between cycling, canoeing, sailing, and hiking, the Canada west-to-east team has finished their 6,900km ...