Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A section of the Harding Icefield is seen on Aug. 5, 2018, from the top of a mountain trail in Kenai Fjords National Park. It is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mining bee is seen on a flower on Nov. 15, 2015. (Photo by Peter Pearsal/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) If you kneel in a patch ...

When Sarah McElrea arrived at the airport in Anchorage, Alaska, last Friday to pick up the 800 pounds of honeybees she was having shipped from Sacramento, California, she got the first sense of a ...

The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. On a warm July afternoon near Fairbanks, a volunteer with the Alaska Bee ...

Millions of honeybees bound for Alaska perished after their Delta Airline flight was rerouted through Georgia, where they were left in crates on the ground for hours on a hot tarmac. The Delta plane ...

Bill Crumpler holds up a honeycomb to examine the bees’ state from a hive rescued from the tarmac of Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport a month before, when a shipment of millions of bees meant for Alaska was ...

If you were hiking around Unalaska in July, you may have seen a small group of scientists in the tundra with insect nets in ...

B. sylvicola, the forest bumblebee, is found in much of Canada and the far western reaches of the United States, including Alaska. Credit: Jessica J. Rykken, National Park Service “People don’t come ...

Bees huddle together in an insulated hive to stay warm during winter months on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) On a clear December day, a blanket of crunchy snow coats the ...

A shipment of five million honeybees was diverted to Atlanta and left out on a hot tarmac. Local beekeepers tried to come to the rescue, but very few survived. By Isabella Grullón Paz When Sarah ...