Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (far left), Gilbert Huntington (second left), Tony Fiorillo (center) and Paul McCarthy (seated) look over a geologic map of Alaska to figure out where the best opportunity to find ...

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories ...

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...

It’s nearly 2 in the morning and the sun is just beginning to set as Ben Stevens navigates the braided channels of the Yukon River toward his fish camp. Stevens is a traditional fisherman — Dinyee ...