The Minnesota Zoo saves two orphaned sea otter pups
Two sea otter pups, one orphaned after an orca killed its mother in Alaska and another rescued by SeaLife, are now receiving care at the Minnesota Zoo.
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Two sea otter pups, one orphaned after an orca killed its mother in Alaska and another rescued by SeaLife, are now receiving care at the Minnesota Zoo.
Fat Bear Week will launch this week at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
Kyle Gustafson, 34, fell Sept. 2 while hiking south of Anchorage, according to the Army. He was hospitalized and later died.
It remains unclear if the golden dome is associated with a known species, a new species, or represents an unknown life stage of an existing one.
A home collapsed into a raging river swollen by waters from a glacial dam release north of the state capital of Juneau, the National Weather Service said.
The earthquake was felt widely throughout the Aleutian Islands, the Alaskan Peninsula and Cook Inlet regions, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.
Attorneys general from 10 states plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying its failure to review and ensure emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves has allowed the continued sale of appliances that unduly worsen pollution.
A fourth soldier was hospitalized in the crash.
The choppers were returning from a training flight, the Army says. A fourth troop injured in the crash was hospitalized.
A 1-year-old Australian shepherd named Nanuq was bitten by a seal or polar bear before eventually making it home.
No debris from either object was found, officials said.
U.S. warplanes stationed in North America have seen rare offensive action this month.
For the third time in just three days, the United States has shot down a third unidentified object, the latest one over Lake Huron.
The six Chinese entities are said by the U.S. to be linked to Beijing's aerospace programs.
Senators questioned Pentagon officials about why the spy balloon was not shot down over Alaska.
Firefighters in Alaska got an unusual request for assistance last weekend from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, but it wasn't your mundane cat-stuck-in-a-tree situation.
The bird was tagged with a tracking GPS chip and tiny solar panel that enabled a research team to follow its first annual migration across the Pacific Ocean.
In the meantime, organizers of the official Fat Bear Week poll in Alaska said that their contest became the target of rampant ballot stuffing.
Voyageurs Wolf Project posted a video of some of the larger bears seen on their hidden cameras up north.
Nearly 50-foot waves and tides up to 13 feet are expected as the dangerous storm brings hundreds of miles of hurricane-force winds.
