Science

While some are a recent arrival, insects have been in the state living indoors and outside for centuries.

The Alaska blackfish is different from others in the state because it can pull oxygen from free air, allowing it to occupy stagnant northern pools that kill other fish.

Earth is a giant magnet, explains science writer Ned Rozell. So the difference in the two, known as degrees of declination, changes depending on where you are.

Using supercomputers at UAF, scientists predict more than 200 glaciers will have disappeared from Alaska by 2100 under current warming trends.

Able to survive at lower temperatures than its relatives in the Lower 48, the wood frog in Alaska has shown to be even more hardy.

William Dall spent years surveying and studying the state for the Smithsonian Institution, including most of his findings in the book “Alaska and its Resources.”

Tucked between the slopes of the Shublik Mountains on the North Slope is a small glacier that hasn’t been documented, until now.

One researcher’s studies found that black-capped chickadees can gain an additional 10% of their body weight each day by stuffing themselves, before using that fat to shiver all night to stay warm.

An essay included in the document reported people have found about 1 million dead seabirds on Alaska’s western coast and the Gulf of Alaska in the last decade.

The Arctic Report Card 2022 shows that the warming leads to increasing climate-driven disturbances such as wildfires, extreme weather and unusual wildlife mortality events, affecting the food security and safety of Arctic Indigenous populations.

The hundreds of distressed and dead birds found over years by local communities are only a fraction of those that starved, scientists say.

Science writer Ned Rozell explains how our northernmost cities surrender to darker days in early winter only to regain light to an eventual abundance.

The event will be from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12, at the Anchorage Museum and will feature journalists and a panel of experts in a discussion of some of the effects of a warming climate on one of the planet’s most productive marine ecosystems.

A recent paper by UAF scientists based on bone and antler findings speculates that moose have lived there since trotting across the Bering Land Bridge.

There is danger lurking on the floor of the Bering and Chukchi seas for mussels, snails, clams, worms and other cold-water invertebrates, according to a new study led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists.

The latest is the ice-filled caldera of Takawangha, which rises 4,753 feet out of the Bering Sea in Alaska’s far western Aleutian Islands.

A wide variety of Arctic animals, including polar bears, are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a new study said.

In 2004, Alda visited the state as part of the PBS series “Scientific American Frontiers” and met with a number of Alaska’s top scientific minds.

In his most harrowing mountaineering adventure, Argus dislocated a hip on Denali and had to wait a week for a rescue.

Egypt’s rulers are hosting U.N. climate talks known as COP27. Their ancient predecessors were probably toppled in part from climate issues, researchers say.

Ned Rozell recounts his run through the New York City Marathon, a chance to reflect on personal history and the graciousness of humanity.

Josephine Galipon is developing a field kit to let researchers examine RNA outside the lab.

The researchers say their biological product has a similar insulative value to foam, repels water but doesn’t trap it, and can be produced in Alaska so it doesn’t need a long ride.