Alaska’s year without a summer
In 1783, a volcano in Iceland had frigid affects on the northwest part of the state.
American robins not heading north quite yet
Birds make a pit stop in Alberta on their migration to Alaska.
What’s the purpose of a moose’s long nose?
An Ohio scientist made the snout length the central question of a study.
Death of a caribou: A look at life recycled on a gravel bar in the Alaska wilderness
How could a 300-pound animal disappear so fast? From evidence at the kill site, here’s what might have happened.
Grades keep slipping on the Arctic Report Card
Researchers at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union again sounded the alarm for a quiet place — the top of the world.
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.