Researchers for years have been baffled as rivers and streams across Alaska turned orange, but new research points to climate change as an answer. Scientists suspect the drastic color change is ...

Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study. The finding ...

Rivers across Alaska, including the Yukon and Kuskokwim ... One glance at the National Weather Service's river forecast map and it's apparent a frozen and snowed-over landscape still is the ...

(CNN) — Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study.

The above image isn't a heat map, despite its bright colors. Instead, it's a photograph of Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic, a vast national park in the remote northern region of Alaska.

Toxic metals released by melting permafrost are staining Alaska's rivers bright orange and making them highly acidic. This section of the Kutuk River in the Gates of the Arctic National Park looks ...

An atmospheric river that transported immense amounts of water vapor from the tropics to Southcentral Alaska in November ... If you were to study weather maps of the entire Earth today, you ...