The headline is true: the sun will never, ever rise in Barrow, Alaska again due to a municipal technicality. On Friday, November 18 at 1:31 p.m., the sun set on Barrow not only for the last time in ...

America’s northernmost city of Barrow, Alaska is powering through a long period of darkness. The sun in Barrow set earlier this month on Nov. 18, and it will not rise again until next year: Jan. 22, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week, scientists were pulling together the latest data for NOAA’s monthly report on the climate when they noticed something strange: One of their key ...

The nation’s northernmost high school football team, the Barrow Whalers, were just a half dozen years removed from winning the ASAA Division III state championship. The Whalers had a host of all-state ...

Above: An aerial image of Barrow (Utqiagvik), Alaska. Barrow is located at a latitude of 71°17’26”, about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Every month since December 2015 the temperature has ...

Bunna Edwardson loaded the last of his passengers into a Ford van, pointed it toward a strip of gravel that passes for a road and broke into a toothy grin. "Let's go see some polar bears," he said. We ...

When Greg Fishel visited Barrow Alaska in March, the sun set at 9 p.m. after just over 13 hours above the horizon. This small town along Alaska's northern coast is known for its extremes and has ...

I had come to Barrow to learn about ice and climate change from Eskimo elders and hunters and from scientists. For two weeks I’d been visiting northern Alaska coastal villages as a guest of the Coast ...