Bears alert scientists to secret salmon streams
When researchers for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve started studying northern grizzly bears, they found the remains of salmon carcasses and bear scat containing fish bones and gills.
Science
A look at the banana slugs that ooze over coastal Alaska
Pacific banana slugs can grow to the lengths of pencils in the warm weather of California. In colder climates, they likely hibernate underground in winter.
In 1981, scientists predicted an earthquake like the one that rattled the Alaska Peninsula this week
They described the area as a swath of one of the world’s great subduction zones that had not ruptured in a long time — and it was perhaps due.
Alaska earthquake that prompted tsunami evacuations, but no big wave, may offer clue in scientific debate
The powerful 7.8 earthquake caused serious shaking in some Alaska Peninsula communities but little damage.
Paleontologists discover part of baby dinosaur jawbone in Arctic Alaska
A scientist with Southern Methodist University says that the fragment supports the theory that some meat-eating dinosaurs, called dromaeosaurs, lived year-round in the Arctic.
How the unusual behavior of 2 major rivers shaped life and history in Interior Alaska
Without the Delta and Nenana rivers cutting north through the Alaska Range, life in Alaska's subarctic would be very different.
Granite tors are evidence of ice-free Alaska
Despite many years of wind and water eroding softer materials away, granite tors have endured.
An examination of animals that travel thousands of miles each year, in Alaska and beyond
From caribou to wolves, some animals log upwards of 3,000 miles a year.
Fish are more vulnerable to warming water than scientists previously thought
A new study shows that when fish are spawning or are embryos they are more vulnerable to hotter water.
Florida-based startup wants to fly passengers to the edge of space beneath giant balloons launched from Kodiak
A company is proposing a capsule that would carry eight passengers 19 miles above the ground. The six-hour journey could cost $125,000 each.
Appreciating rain during Alaska’s all-too-brief summer
Some parts of the state are experiencing a rainy stretch. Looking at the driest and wettest parts of Alaska, we still fall short of global extremes.
Meet the blackpoll warbler, a world traveler flying with mind-boggling endurance
Blackpoll warblers can travel as much as 12,400 miles round-trip each year, and millions of them breed in the boreal forest of Alaska and Canada.
When thawing permafrost kills? A moose story
Sinkholes known as thermokarst are developing as permafrost thaws.
A tale of glacier mice and young love
This married couple, both scientists, used expertise from their respective fields — biology and glaciology — to study little mossy bundles known as glacier mice at Root Glacier near McCarthy.
Planet walk in Fairbanks puts things in perspective
With each step representing 2.5 million miles, trekkers can get a sense of the vast universe.
Researcher works to honor scientific legacy of Alaska pilot who died in North Slope crash
Jim Webster enabled a wide range of studies with safe flying and hands-on support of scientific teams on the tundra, say researchers who knew him.
‘Zombie fires’ are erupting in Siberia and Alaska, signaling a severe northern wildfire season may lie ahead
The wildfires can burrow into rich organic material, such as the vast peatlands that ring the Arctic, and smolder under the snowpack throughout the frigid winter.
Amid accuracy concerns, Alaska providers use Abbott COVID-19 testing machines with safeguards in place
Out of 360 Abbott test results that the state’s public health lab has double-checked, one negative test ended up coming back positive during confirmatory testing.
COVID-19 knocked him down, but this tough Alaskan hopes others can learn from his story
Greg Finstad, a reindeer biologist at UAF and marathon runner, wants to be a cautionary tale as to the danger of the coronavirus.
Dinosaurs once strode the Bering Land Bridge
Skeleton found recently in Japan is very similar to fossils found throughout Alaska.