Above: An aerial image of Barrow (Utqiagvik), Alaska. Barrow is located at a latitude of 71°17’26”, about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Every month since December 2015 the temperature ...

In October, the people of the Alaskan town formerly known as Barrow, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, voted to restore its indigenous name, Utqiagvik. Zachariah Hughes of Alaska Public Media ...

All of the data for Barrow, Alaska – the northernmost city in the United States – was missing. No, Barrow hadn’t literally been vanquished by the pounding waves of the Arctic Sea (although ...

Barrow, Alaska just welcomed a long-lost guest: a sunrise. The last time the northernmost town in the U.S. witnessed that phenomenon was on Nov. 23 – 68 days earlier. But the sun showed up over ...

Barrow’s vote follows a high profile name change in Alaska. Last year, the Obama administration decided to bestow the traditional Alaska Native to North America’s tallest mountain, from Mount ...