WASHINGTON — Some polar bears and their cubs already in danger of extinction could be legally killed by private oil-drilling projects in northern Alaska, according to proposed new regulations. The ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy” as she receives care at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds of miles ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of Pacific walruses have again gathered on the northwest shore of Alaska as the Chukchi Sea approaches its annual sea ice minimum. Residents of the Inupiaq village ...

Megan Onders, from Nome, is chief of the King Island Native Community and an advocate of her region's ivory carving traditions. She wore six bracelets made of walrus ivory and baleen when she ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Pacific walrus that can’t find sea ice for resting in Arctic waters are coming ashore in record numbers on a beach in northwest Alaska. An estimated 35,000 walrus were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A walrus calf found on ...

An estimated 35,000 Pacific walruses were photographed Saturday as they came ashore near an Eskimo village in Alaska, The Associated Press reported. The record number of walruses arrived in northwest ...

Aug. 5—This piece was originally published in Northern Journal, a newsletter published by Nathaniel Herz. As a rule, I almost never bite on PR pitches; they tend to be almost offensively irrelevant to ...

In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary on the saber-toothed seals Jack Tamisiea As a paleobotanist, Kirk Johnson’s ...

The polar bear is one of the most impressive animals on Earth. It is the largest of the world’s eight bear species, and adult males can weigh from about 772 to 1,433 pounds, with some exceptionally ...