Oceans

The company said in an email that the barge was damaged during transit but was “secure” and “not sinking.”

The draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to the fishing industry.

Scrubbers filter heavy fuel oil exhaust, but environmental advocates say they transfer air pollution into Alaska’s waters. Some Juneau residents want to see that change.

John Craighead George had a tradition of sending out messages in bottles after each whale census. This is just the second known to be found.

A new team at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage is studying microplastics — the tiny particles of plastic found in nearly every environment that can likely work their way into human tissues — with a a $5 million grant it got last year from NASA.

Waves that may have reached 100 feet scoured an inlet that’s frequented by cruise ships, tour vessels and pleasure boats.