SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall that the city will be home to a "mega" detention center that will hold up to 10,000 people ...

Sea ice is sticking to Alaska's northern coast for less time each year, according to 27 years of data analyzed by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Such landfast ice, which stays attached to ...

Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...

Stable sea ice along Alaska’s coast is disappearing faster than expected, with the season shrinking by weeks and even months in recent decades. The ice is forming later in the fall and, in some places ...

"There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, in a way that I haven't seen in any other cave," said John Moretti, a University of Texas at Austin paleontologist who led the research. "It was just ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — What looks like a quiet, snow-covered forest near Trout Lake holds a surprising secret just beneath the surface. Instead of a dirt trail, the journey begins with a trek deeper ...

On Feb. 17, a Soldotna family was torn apart when federal ICE agents took a mother and her three children from their home. Sonia Espinoza Arriaga and her 16- and 5-year-old children were deported to ...

Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska: Drone tour of Juneau Icefield's legacy Ascend over the colossal "river of ice" that defines the landscape of Juneau, Alaska. The drone glides across the crystalline blue ...

The genome of a bacterial strain trapped in cave ice for 5000 years has been sequenced for the first time, providing an insight into antimicrobial resistance. Bacteria have evolved to colonize even ...

The arrest of a Soldotna family by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including two teens and a 5-year-old, has prompted a wave of concern and lawmakers to hold an investigatory hearing on ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities on Monday defended the arrest of a Soldotna mother and her three children amid vigils for the family and a state legislative hearing on ICE’s ...