To understand Sammy Smith, you have to understand what her past eight months have looked like. In June, she finished her freshman year at Stanford and, “for fun,” ran a Half Ironman — a 1.2-mile swim, ...

Alaska in the winter is unlike anywhere in the Continental U.S., with a rugged, untouched beauty that makes it an ...

U.S. Olympic skiers and scientists explain the sharp differences between natural snow and machine-made snow, from the science ...

Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote population of grizzly bears on Alaska's North Slope.