Finding the great earthquake of 1900 near Kodiak
Using sources like the readings of seismometers that recorded the seismic waves and written records from the time, a UAF scientist is trying to detail the quake.
Using sources like the readings of seismometers that recorded the seismic waves and written records from the time, a UAF scientist is trying to detail the quake.
The glacier in Southeast hasn’t been studied much in part because it’s so big and remote.
The trees that were mowed over during the mid-1800s by the La Perouse Glacier have been studied to see how living things respond to dramatic changes.
As air circulates around at the right frequency, the wires build up oscillation.
Radiocarbon dating of the Alaska twine and charcoal found near the beads led researchers to believe they arrived sometime between 1440 and 1480, years before Christopher Columbus was even thinking of his journey.
Bowhead numbers in northern Alaska were up in 2020, but there is still plenty of unpredictability facing the species.
The reading of minus 80 Fahrenheit was recorded by a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp just north of the Arctic Circle.
Interactions with “nuisance lynx” are leading to speculation that their main food source, snowshoe hares, may be in a down cycle.
From minus 78 windchill at Howard Pass to a rarely spotted golden eagle, 2021 has already produced some surprises.
Around the turn of the 20th century, Charles C. Georgeson helped establish agricultural experimental stations across Alaska.
The tiny birds gorge themselves during the day, find a tiny roost in a tree and shiver their way through the night.
As we slowly start to regain sunlight later this month, science writer Ned Rozell takes time to remember a friend he lost this year.