Image via Facebook One New England couple is living their best lives in a remote homestead in Alaska. This off-the-grid oasis isn't for the faint of heart and comes with some serious challenges.

Tim Huffman brushes snow off his beehives on Monday, March 18, 2025 at his home in South Anchorage. Huffman, a relative newcomer to beekeeping, has seen success overwintering his bees in Alaska.

Alaska’s winters are brutal, with temperatures plunging far below freezing. Yet, some animals have evolved to survive and even thrive in these extreme conditions. From Arctic foxes to mighty ...

As evidence that turtles are overwintering in Alaska, Ream points to a red-eared slider found by a local teacher and her students in early spring of 2013, just as the ice went out.

The Alaska brant are mostly found in Izembeck Lagoon and adjacent bays on the Alaska Peninsula, the 500-mile tongue of mainland that juts toward the Aleutian Islands.

Each September, the wood frogs of Alaska do a very strange thing: They freeze. They do not freeze totally solid, but they do freeze mostly solid. Two-thirds of their body water turns to ice. If ...

The first people who came to Alaska likely trekked on foot across a land bridge during the last ice age. It's always been a bit of a mystery how they survived the long, dark winters we still see ...