Fairbanks North Star Borough leaders say property owners could see millions of dollars in insurance savings as the borough ...

The Global RIver Topology (GRIT) map provides the most comprehensive representation of the world's rivers to date, capturing 19.6 million km of channels and 67,000 bifurcations.

Jolliet in 1673 and the Cavelier de La Salle Expedition of the Mississippi River Valley. Bernou’s map shows the Black River just north of Fort McCoy. The next monumental map to display the Great ...

At the end of the 19th century, an estimated 100,000 people joined the Klondike Gold Rush, seeking their fortunes in the interior of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory. Many gold seekers who ...

Southcentral Alaska’s Susitna River is one of the nation’s most endangered rivers because of a state plan to build a 100-mile road into its uplands to encourage mining, oil and gas drilling ...

Alaska U.S. House Election Results for all districts, including county-by-county maps and breakdowns: For more elections results from local Alaska election races, read USA TODAY's full Alaska ...

But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial ... increasingly short and heavy bursts of rain from atmospheric rivers, carpets of moisture that sweep in from the gulf before ...

A huge atmospheric river over the Gulf of Alaska. Image: Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and data from ...

A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River and its tributaries. One popular example was shared to X (archived ...

Thiruvananthapuram: In yet another case of Google Maps going wrong, two persons narrowly escaped after the car they were travelling in fell into a river in the Kasargod district of Kerala on ...

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.

Now, remote rivers in the Alaska backcountry are turning from a pristine glacier blue to an alarming rusty bright orange, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications: Earth ...