However, perhaps the most enigmatic population of freshwater seals can be found a little closer to home in Alaska's Iliamna Lake. Despite their wider anonymity, the Iliamna seals have long been ...

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — The State of Alaska sued to reverse the National Marine Fisheries ...

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

fur seal and sea otter pelts they brought showed this land to be a fur trader's paradise. Russian documents from the time indicate that Bering's explorations of Alaska were not made for the purely ...

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 ...

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, ...

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks found microplastics in nearly all of the spotted seals' stomachs examined in a recent study, published in the current issue of the peer ...

This year, the Alaska Native Medical Center’s food and nutrition staff decided to try something new. Rather than provide chefs with an already butchered seal to make soup and other meals ...

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, ...

Haines hunter Tim Ackerman has been donating seal meat to the hospital since 2016. This month, for the first time, the ...