Science

From moose to owls, a number of creatures struggled through a winter with above normal snowpack. How will they fare going forward?

Permafrost loss, flooding and giant underground landslides known as “frozen debris lobes” are three of the biggest concerns.

The cause of the quakes under Mount Edgecumbe, near Sitka, are not known but don’t necessarily indicate volcanic activity, scientists say.

Knut Kielland with UAF’s Department of Biology and Wildlife is trying to understand the ecology of the boreal-forest cats.

Science writer Ned Rozell joins a UAF ecologist on a mission to track the movement of the boreal-forest cats.

This week’s especially good aurora forecast could bring an array of colors, including deep reds and pinks.

A research expedition involving American, Canadian and Russian scientists is trying to understand salmon booms and busts in the “black box’” of the high seas.

The journey, undertaken in 1885, was compared to the Lewis and Clark expedition of 80 years before.

Nearly 50 scientists from the U.S. and Europe descended on Fairbanks recently to study the sources of air pollution and how the contaminants interact in the city’s cold and dark climate.

Southeast Alaska often gets washed by the dramatic weather events that often lead to flooding. But scientists are gaining data in hopes to make them more predictable.

Studies indicate that women are less susceptible to fatigue, burn fat more efficiently and likely pace themselves better than men.

The songbirds with the mating call of “quick, three beers” can travel up to 7,000 miles each way from Alaska to South America and back again.

Most insects either develop freeze-avoiding techniques or prep their bodies to tolerate the cold. Some do both.

At the blustery Howard Pass weather station, a recent reading indicated a wind chill of 91 degrees below zero.

Female caribou were fitted with cameras that exposed a wealth of data on their diet and movements as part of a collaborative effort by multiple agencies.

Seventy-two people in the village of Brevig Mission (then called Teller Mission) died between Nov. 15 and Nov. 20, 1918. Only eight villagers survived.

Professor Vladimir Romanovsky has dedicated much of his professional career to studying permafrost, which has grown more prominent in the public consciousness.

A pair of Fairbanks residents have had unique opportunities to study snow and ice in the aftermath of a recent midwinter rainstorm in Interior Alaska.

Hearing a volcano, or any sound, so far from its origin “is a pretty rare phenomenon,” said an Alaska Volcano Observatory scientist.

An inch of rain in late December left a sheet of ice around Fairbanks that is altering life for a bevy of species.