Iliamna Lake harbor seals, members of one of the world's five freshwater seal populations, rest on the ice surface of Alaska's biggest lake in this undated photo. Their ability to live in an ...

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

Mar. 7—Five people were seriously injured when a small plane crashed into a frozen lake in Southwest Alaska, state troopers said. Everyone in the plane survived the crash, which destroyed the Cessna ...

In Alaska, harbor seals thrive in the chilled water of Iliamna Lake, sliding their blubbery bodies onto floating pieces of ice for a winter rest. This group of round-eyed water dwellers has remained a ...

Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals commonly move more than 200 kilometers. Researchers hypothesized that they move regularly between freshwater and marine habitats. Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals ...

The head of United Tribes of Bristol Bay wrote recently in these pages, purportedly speaking on behalf of all residents of the region, about the proposed Pebble mine and actions by our governor to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Lake Iliamna in Alaska is North America s eighth-largest lake, but nobody would mistake it for the Pacific Ocean. Not even a seabird. So when thousands of common murres were found ...