Biologist who camped on Arctic island since 1970s has front-row seat to warming climate
George Divoky, who has monitored black guillemots on a remote island since the 1970s, provides a bird-level perspective on climate change.
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UAF Extension hosts workshops on reducing wood-burning air pollution
Burning wood for warmth, power or ... biochar? A series of events around the state seek to inform Alaskans about the many sides of a winter ritual.
As ice thaws, rock avalanches on Southeast Alaska mountains are getting bigger
A closer look at 24 Glacier Bay landslides from the 1980s to 2016 reveals a trend that correlates with higher air temperatures.
Study: ‘Unprecedented’ rain, warmth for Alaska by end of century
Warming will bring bigger rain events, winter thaws and scorching summer days, says a UAF study of future weather extremes
A glacier in Interior Alaska is a testing ground for equipment intended for use in space
Equipment recording seismic signals gets a trial run on Gulkana Glacier, a stand-in for Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter and potential site of extraterrestrial life.
This month, an Alaska scientist will switch on an artificial aurora
People travel north from all over for a chance to see the aurora borealis or northern lights. Soon, Chris Fallen will make his own.
125,000 years ago, the central Arctic was covered by summer sea ice – even though temperatures were higher
If atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration continues to climb, scientists projected, Arctic sea ice could begin melting in the winter as well as summer.
Stampede suspected as dozens of walruses found dead near Point Lay
The Arctic barrier island where the carcasses were found has emerged as a favored end-of-summer haulout for animals trying to survive without summer sea ice.
Hundreds of dead birds found on Bering Sea shores
The die-off, the latest in a series that coincides with warm marine conditions, is claiming northern fulmars and short-tailed shearwaters over a vast geographic region
North Slope ‘fish spa’ might hold answers to survival in a warming Arctic
Researchers are testing whether some populations of arctic grayling are better suited than others to the changing climate.
North Slope lakes get artificial warmth to simulate climate change
Using swimming pool heaters and generators, scientists are hoping to see how fish and smaller organisms will react as the region warms.
As the Arctic warms, scientists at this remote field station try to make sense of the changing environment
Toolik Field Station on Alaska's North Slope offers scientists a prime location to study how climate change is impacting Arctic ecosystems.
Alaska’s small high-mountain glaciers play a big role in groundwater and river systems
Water from high-altitude and often obscure glaciers appears to be important to aquifers, but those glaciers are shrinking.
North Korea’s nuclear bomb test lit up seismometers in Alaska
More than 400 instruments planted around Alaska have registered North Korean tests, which are of scientific interest to earthquake researchers in the state.
Aurora expected as far south as Lower 48, but Alaska might take a back seat
Blame it on the weather.
Wearing miniature ‘backpacks,’ robins are tracked and studied for reaction to climate change
Scientists are outfitting American robins with GPS units to track their response to a changing climate while migrating.
In a changing Arctic, a lone Coast Guard icebreaker maneuvers through ice and geopolitics
Once an unforgiving no man’s land, the melting Arctic and its rich resources are now the focus of great power rivals.
The big quake: New book explains how 1964 reshaped Alaska and the scientific world
The author of “The Great Quake” weaves together personal narratives and scientific discoveries that came out of the most powerful earthquake recorded in North America.
Seeking clues by slicing 20,000-year-old mammoth tusks
Slicing a 6-foot, 100-pound woolly mammoth tusk lengthwise tends to be a delicate and difficult task for the Alaska scientists at UAF.
With global goose audit and fish camp on the agenda, international Arctic meeting is coming to Bethel
A subgroup of the Arctic Council — an international forum for eight Arctic nations, indigenous peoples and other countries — is converging in Bethel Sept. 6-7.