Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week, scientists were pulling together the latest data for NOAA’s monthly report on the climate when they noticed something strange: One of their key ...

America’s northernmost city of Barrow, Alaska is powering through a long period of darkness. The sun in Barrow set earlier this month on Nov. 18, and it will not rise again until next year: Jan. 22, ...

The nation’s northernmost high school football team, the Barrow Whalers, were just a half dozen years removed from winning the ASAA Division III state championship. The Whalers had a host of all-state ...

Above: An aerial image of Barrow (Utqiagvik), Alaska. Barrow is located at a latitude of 71°17’26”, about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Every month since December 2015 the temperature has ...

When Greg Fishel visited Barrow Alaska in March, the sun set at 9 p.m. after just over 13 hours above the horizon. This small town along Alaska's northern coast is known for its extremes and has ...

Bunna Edwardson loaded the last of his passengers into a Ford van, pointed it toward a strip of gravel that passes for a road and broke into a toothy grin. "Let's go see some polar bears," he said. We ...

I had come to Barrow to learn about ice and climate change from Eskimo elders and hunters and from scientists. For two weeks I’d been visiting northern Alaska coastal villages as a guest of the Coast ...

Barrow, Alaska just welcomed a long-lost guest: a sunrise. The last time the northernmost town in the U.S. witnessed that phenomenon was on Nov. 23 – 68 days earlier. But the sun showed up over Barrow ...