The federal government in December gave up its claim to ownership of the section of the Fortymile River in Alaska's eastern ...

Monday, the United States issued a Quiet Title Act Disclaimer and asked U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to confirm ...

The Alaska Department of Law filed a motion in federal court on Monday asking Alaska’s chief federal judge to confirm the ...

Broad surfaces called terraces preserve ancient river floodplains and landscape history up to hundreds of meters above the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, in eastern Alaska.

The abandoned works of a gold mining operation are seen along the Fortymile River in eastern Alaska. A nonprofit is working with placer miners in the area to reclaim gold for companies such as Apple ...

Caribou wearing cameras around their necks have filmed a secret world of mushroom nibbling, desperate head-shaking during bug episodes, and nuzzling of wet newborns seconds after they fall to the ...

FAIRBANKS - When the military road from Fort Liscum in Valdez to Fort Egbert in Eagle was “completed” in 1900 it was little more than a rough trail, suitable only for saddle and pack horses. The U.S.

LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Scientists have long debated the idea that global climate changes have forced river erosion rates to increase over the past five million years. New field data gleaned from a ...

A study published earlier this week in Nature Geoscience from a collaboration of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Vermont and Purdue University provides geochronological ...

Using cosmogenic nuclide burial dating methods and optically stimulated luminescence dating, geoscientists establish ages for river deposits from the Yukon River basin that span key time periods of ...