New Denali weather stations let you check real-time conditions on North America’s tallest peak
The stations as high as 14,200 feet read the weather but also will help monitor the Kahiltna Glacier.
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Greenland’s accelerating ice loss is likely to get even worse
The rate of ice loss from Greenland has grown by a factor of six since the 1980s, scientists found. Half of the resulting sea level rise has occurred in just the last eight years.
There’s one animal great white sharks are really afraid of
Ever since the 1975 movie “Jaws,” great white sharks have been considered the most fearsome predators in the ocean. But new research published this week shows that may not be the case.
Birds large and small sniff their way through life
Some seabirds can smell prey from up to 15 miles away.
A company built a team of robot ‘sled dogs.’ But can they handle the Iditarod Trail?
At their speed, it could take a while to reach Nome.
Innoko is a long river short on people
The fifth-longest river in Alaska, the Innoko is now at a historic low in human population.
Iditarod: One of the last Gold Rush towns
A century ago Iditarod was the largest city in Interior Alaska.
This year’s snow melt in Anchorage is one of the earliest on record
Anchorage broke or tied temperature records seven days in March, a weather service meteorologist said.
Oldest rock in Alaska has been found near Iditarod
The Iditarod rocks are more than 2 billion years old.
EPA has dragged heels on oil spill dispersant rules, say environmentalists threatening lawsuit
Groups and women from Alaska and Louisiana say dispersants such as Corexit, used during the Exxon Valdez and BP oil spills, are more toxic to people and the environment than oil alone.
Sandy memories of ancient storms
People have lived on Cape Espenberg for more than 4,000 years.
Seeing geology in action near Yakutat
The Hubbard Glacier and other factors make the area near Yakutat one of the world’s great examples of geology in action.
Avalanche warning issued for Turnagain Pass and elsewhere in the Chugach Mountains
The danger stems from heavy snowfall and strong winds, which the Chugach avalanche center says have created “widespread areas of unstable snow.”
Pondering the power of the ocean
Can the waves that once carried surfers provide energy to the coastal community of Yakutat?
Turns out Alaska’s Nov. 30 earthquake was actually 7.1, not 7.0, seismologists say
“People should not be too attached to a number, to a certain magnitude,” one seismologist said.
The Riley Creek pack’s sole survivor
Battered but resilient, dominant matriarch wolf closes in on 10 years.
A bad summer for birds on northern island
The guillemots of Cooper Island struggle as sea ice recedes.
How genealogists helped track down the Maine man accused of killing Sophie Sergie nearly 26 years ago
Public genetic data was used to help identify a former student now charged in the 1993 murder in a University of Alaska Fairbanks dormitory.
Jabbing sensors into the Denali Fault
Ten scientists have divided the fault line into three areas, inserting 400 sensors.
Life returns fast to Bogoslof Island
Bogoslof Island recently reinvented itself, quadrupling in size after its latest eruption.