Alaska’s Big River Breaks up at Eagle

The frozen Yukon River at Eagle in February 2020. Photo by Ned RozellAndy Bassich lives on the south bank of the Yukon River, about 12 miles downstream from Eagle, Alaska, the first community...

By Ned Rozell Andy Bassich lives on the south bank of the Yukon River, about 12 miles downstream from Eagle, Alaska, the first community in America along the largest waterway in Alaska. Like...

Map shows the location of the Shumagin gap, the location of the 2020 Simeonof and 2021 Chignik earthquakes. Map courtesy of the Alaska Earthquake CenterA study of two powerful earthquakes in adjacent areas...

By Mary F. Willson It’s not an imaginary thing, even though it sometimes pops up in pulp fiction. There is experimental evidence that scared humans can produce volatile chemical signals of distress that...