UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage ...

On a windswept beach near Haines, Tim Ackerman walks down a hill with a pair of gloves, a knife, and a bottle of Dawn dish ...

However, perhaps the most enigmatic population of freshwater seals can be found a little closer to home in Alaska's Iliamna ...

The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long been a subject of fascination for their separateness from the seals that ...

Harbor seals in Alaska’s icy fjords rely on icebergs calved from glaciers as critical habitats for giving birth, raising pups, and molting. A recent study reveals how climate-driven changes in ...

(CNN) – A Mountain Dew Super Bowl ad turns Seal the singer into a singing seal. The commercial also features Becky G and ...

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...

two types of Arctic ice seals in Alaska. “This is fantastic news for these ice-dependent seals,” said Emily Jeffers, an attorney with the Center’s Oceans program. “We can’t save them without ...

they fish, they hunt, they feast, they dance." Seal hunting in Glacier Bay in 1899. Click image for a larger view. In Alaska today, subsistence continues to be an important practice. Local foods ...

Northern fur seals at a haul-out on St. Paul Island in ... It would have been the first marine sanctuary in Alaska, giving the tribal government a seat at the table with state and federal resource ...