Killer whales, including calves and juveniles, travel in their family group in the Gulf of Alaska in June 2025. It’s well documented by now that the marine heatwave that hit the Pacific Ocean in 2014 ...

A NASA satellite captured a stunning mix of cloud streets, spiraling vortices, and a rare polar storm over southern Alaska as ...

When a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research project discovered a mysterious object more than two miles underwater in the Gulf of Alaska, scientists were puzzled. Three years later, ...

In a decision that was delayed by the prolonged federal government shutdown last fall, federal fishery regulators have increased this year’s allowable harvest of Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska. The ...

NOAA researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska BioMap have been working on identifying genetic stocks of ...

As winter turned to spring, the skies over the Gulf of Alaska displayed textbook examples of numerous cloud formations.

During the past four decades, the Southern Gulf Coast region—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—and the Gulf of Alaska have been directly impacted by large-scale oil spills of ...