Finding a steaming oasis, isolated and remote: A look at Alaska’s hot springs
Most of the hot springs Ned Rozell has visited are like Kanuti — in windy places near lonely bends of a river, far from anywhere Alaskans call home.
Science
How Alaska wildlife would fare in a world without humans
Alaska’s lack of people has benefited many species, including caribou, which still outnumber Alaskans, and salmon.
Bogoslof volcano makes audio history
Observers have described hearing volcanic thunder in the past, but scientists have been unable to disentangle from the cacophony of bellows and blasts that accompany an explosive eruption.
Overflow ice: Like an oasis in the cold desert of the Arctic
Aufeis or overflow ice, ecologists believe, enhances the diversity of northern life both in summer and winter.
Satellites: Streaking, manmade lights in the sky
The Earth is looped by thousands of intelligent devices — manmade satellites — and the defunct parts that got them up there.
The thin line between Canada and Alaska
The boundary between Alaska and Canada is 1,538 miles long. That line is obvious in some places, and invisible in others.
A scientist’s view of Alaska, 150 years ago
William Dall, who left his name all over the state, was in 1866 one of the first scientists to document the mysterious peninsula jutting toward Russia.
Did plants cause one of Earth’s great extinctions?
Geologists have found evidence that plants, the most gentle of organisms, may have helped kill most of the life in the oceans 374 million years ago.
Aleutian volcano erupts, sending ash cloud miles into the sky
Monitors picked up a small explosion and ash cloud from Cleveland volcano on Friday morning.
Was the Bering Land Bridge a good place to live?
The earliest human sites in Alaska date to about 14,200 years ago. Could people have been living on the land bridge during that gap?
Space weather: Havoc caused by the sun
Space weather affects snowplow drivers carving through Thompson Pass in a whiteout, Iowa farmers dropping seeds of corn and wedding planners who release white doves during the ceremony.
Where are the Yukon chinooks headed?
Of the thousands of tendrils that carry water to the Yukon River, the most popular chinook birthing grounds are surprisingly close to the only place resembling an urban center: Fairbanks.
That 7.9 earthquake off Kodiak was powerful — and puzzling
The Jan. 23 earthquake was the most powerful one on the planet since one off Mexico last August.
Polar bears burn more calories than thought. Can they survive climate change?
New findings reveal alarming facts about the polar bear's unsustainable physiology in the face of ongoing climate change.
A suitcase-size satellite’s big image of frozen Alaska below
A new image of Noatak National Preserve from the recently launched Iceye shows how much you can accomplish with a tiny satellite.
Utqiaġvik, where the climate has already changed
“The term is no longer ‘climate change’ at Utqiaġvik. It is ‘climate changed.’"
In Canada, researchers use database to tell where people have lived by analyzing their hair
Using isotope analysis, scientists can track the body of water from which a person drank and prepared food during a certain period of hair growth.
Photographer shares what he believes is at stake in ANWR with one image
Forty years after he shot a panoramic photo of the Porcupine caribou herd, John Wright took that image to Washington, D.C., to share with politicians.
Snorkeling songbird: Dippers swim Alaska rivers throughout winter
It seems like crazy behavior for a cold winter day, but swimming is how American dippers make their living, even here in Alaska.
‘The odds were against him’: Rescued beluga calf gives scientists insights into an endangered population
At the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, 4-month-old Tyonek has put on weight, developed endurance and sometimes get "hangry" — and that's a good sign.