Alaska offers exceptional angling opportunities across rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, with destinations known for salmon ...

The writer John McPhee once described Alaska’s Salmon River as having “the clearest, purest water” he’d ever seen. Today, that same river runs orange with toxic metals unleashed by thawing permafrost.

Alaska is the land of extremes, so it's no surprise that its longest river, the massive Yukon, is the third longest in the U.S. after the Missouri and the Mississippi. Originating at the Llewellyn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hydrologist Jon Fuller pushes on the oars during a state-sponsored rafting trip down the Necons and Stony rivers in Southcentral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patrick Sullivan stands by an acid seep on July 15,2023. Sullivan is part of a team of scientists who tested water quality in ...

Instead of floating a big-name river in Alaska, we decided to fish and float a more obscure river. It was packed with ...

Higher than normal snowpack and ice thickness, among other factors, have created heightened risks in 2026 for much of the ...

Southcentral Alaska’s Susitna River is one of the nation’s most endangered rivers because of a state plan to build a 100-mile road into its uplands to encourage mining, oil and gas drilling, logging ...

Rising temperatures in a Southcentral Alaska river have led to a hungrier population of invasive northern pike, a trend that ...

Warmer rivers are making invasive pike eat more fish, increasing pressure on already struggling salmon populations in Alaska.

The North — including the Yukon and Alaska — is warming much faster than the rest of the world due to climate change. Researchers want to know how that will affect the baby salmon hatching in rivers ...

Alaska Army National Guard rescued the family of six from a sandbar on Alaska's Kuskokwim River on June 30 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared ...