To many casual onlookers, the Iditarod is a weird curiosity. The famed sled-dog race, which begins this year on March 1, tasks mushers with trekking roughly 1,000 miles across the snowy Alaskan ...

Fur Rendezvous Winter Festival All weekend throughout The festival is a winter tradition in Southcentral Alaska, with the the 90th edition starting this weekend. Sled dogs and reindeer runs, fur ...

Learn more about the history of Sea Ice Today and ASINA. Sea Ice Today is produced by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in ...