UNESCO World Heritage says the Heard Island and McDonald Islands exist "in the complete absence" of human impact.

The village of Shishmaref, in Northern Alaska, may have to be relocated due to rising temperatures, thawing permafrost, and rapid coastal erosion. Denis, who has lived here for 20 years ...

St. Matthew Island Reindeer Numbers Plummet — 1966 Klein returned to St. Matthew Island in the summer of 1966 and found that the herd of 6,000 had shrunk to only 42 reindeer. Of this group, only ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...

In 1908, the whaling industry collapsed and Herschel Island was deserted. Loetscher Chlaus ... descendents of the Thule Inuit tribes who left Alaska to colonize the island a thousand years ...