Chunks of the Arctic Alaska coast are falling into the sea, but why?
The Arctic Ocean has recently eaten house-size chunks of tundra at a rate of more than 50 feet per year.
Fairbanks air earns an unwanted pollution ranking
Tiny particles, much of them from wood stoves, give the city, on its worst days, air as thick as Beijing’s.
A rogue ice shelf covering the Arctic Ocean?
Thousands of years ago, this shore was an ocean beach.
Enormous blast in Siberia more than a century ago remains a mystery
If the Tunguska event was not from a heavenly body crashing into or exploding just above Earth, what was it?
Alaska chickadees are brainier than their southern counterparts
In a laboratory experiment, Alaska birds — which must survive very short days and extreme cold — cached about twice as many sunflower seeds as Colorado birds and later found them much more quickly.
Arctic humidification contributing to less ice, more heat
Less sea ice may be causing Alaska to become less continental. That means differences between summer and winter temperatures are getting smaller.
How a tiny Alaska moth can alter the behavior of moose
Researchers found that sandbar willows on the Tanana River flats infested with the leaf miners in early summer are not the first choice of moose in winter.
3.5 million pounds of Alaska moose meat goes into freezers each year
People go a long way and spend a lot of money to pursue Alaska’s most-hunted animal because it’s a tradition for many.
Spear points found in Northwest Alaska hint at intriguing human migrations
Stone spear points from Serpentine Hot Springs on the Seward Peninsula hint that ancient people may have migrated northward between ice sheets from warmer parts of America.
The dashed line of the Arctic Circle isn’t necessarily a fixed thing
While all lands and ocean north of the Arctic Circle are by definition what people are talking about when they say Arctic, not all of the Arctic is the same.
A geophysicist reflects on the remarkable opportunities Alaska’s volcanoes and earthquakes provided
Jeff Freymueller, leaving for a new job Outside after 23 years, had the foresight and good luck to start using GPS satellites before he came to Alaska.
Here’s how Alaska beetles survive unearthly temperatures – and why that might help humans
The proteins created by the red flat bark beetle fascinate scientists because they are an ingredient of an all-natural antifreeze liquid, a version of which might someday be used to cool human organs to preserve them.