Alaska’s all-time cold record turns 50
The reading of minus 80 Fahrenheit was recorded by a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp just north of the Arctic Circle.
The reading of minus 80 Fahrenheit was recorded by a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp just north of the Arctic Circle.
Interactions with “nuisance lynx” are leading to speculation that their main food source, snowshoe hares, may be in a down cycle.
From minus 78 windchill at Howard Pass to a rarely spotted golden eagle, 2021 has already produced some surprises.
Around the turn of the 20th century, Charles C. Georgeson helped establish agricultural experimental stations across Alaska.
The 2020 Arctic Report Card, released this month by 134 researchers across Arctic nations, tells a story of change on sea and land.
The tiny birds gorge themselves during the day, find a tiny roost in a tree and shiver their way through the night.
As we slowly start to regain sunlight later this month, science writer Ned Rozell takes time to remember a friend he lost this year.
Scientists and observers gathered virtually this year to review the annual report, but the message remained the same.
An area in the Aleutians could be a type of large volcano, like the Yellowstone Caldera, that can cause massive eruptions with drastic global consequences.
They are predatory butcher birds that will dine on everything from insects to small mammals and even other songbirds.
After arriving in the state as a student from Japan, Syun-Ichi Akasofu became an authority on the aurora, and later led the Geophysical Institute at UAF and helped establish the International Arctic Research Center.
Simpson recently died unexpectedly, but she left behind volumes of incisive writings and a collection of writers she taught and inspired.
“This could be a region of resilience,” said Steffi O’Daly, a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
Considered a luminary in his field, Will Harrison mapped out and executed studies of glaciers from Antarctica to Greenland.
An Alaska scientist is working down the food chain testing samples of fish and squid to try to find out why.
The glacial dam release is believed to have flowed under Lituya Glacier and into Lituya Bay back in August.
At villages in northwestern and central Alaska, from McGrath to Wainwright, people saw what scientists think was a meteorite.
The best nights to view the northern lights from Anchorage are likely Wednesday and Thursday, with the forecast calling for clear skies.
Biologist Stacia Backensto fabricated an elaborate disguise — and even walked with a different gait — in order to trick the birds.
One researched posited that people who were moody and worrisome shivered less than people with sunnier personalities.