See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Alaska's rivers are turning bright orange, and scientists are working ...

Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study. The finding ...

On a late-summer flight over northern Alaska’s Brooks Range, stretches of river that should look like glass suddenly appear ...

Researchers for years have been baffled as rivers and streams across Alaska turned orange, but new research points to climate change as an answer. Scientists suspect the drastic color change is the ...

Dozens of Alaska's most remote streams and rivers are turning from a crystal clear blue into a cloudy orange, and the staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost, finds new ...

In Alaska’s far north, something strange is happening. Rivers that once ran crystal clear are now turning a rusty orange, and scientists say the shift is permanent. A new study published in The ...

A section of Nome Creek in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, seen in June, shows how historic placer mining, which dredged much of the waterway, molded the bank into a scalloped rock wall.

Beverly Hoffman grew up on the Kuskokwim River, a storied 700-mile waterway that flows from the Alaska Range to the Bering Sea. Now 71 years old, she says its fish have nourished her for most of her ...

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