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Bronze Artifact Found on Alaska's Seward Peninsula
Researchers excavating an Inupiat Eskimo home believed to be about 1,000 years old on Alaska's west coast have recovered a bronze artifact...
Scientists Again Will Track Rare Gray Whales
Researchers who tracked a rare western Pacific gray whale last winter from the Asian coast to North America are back in Russian waters.
Sea Ice Study Goes Beyond The Numbers
In places where the air gets cold enough to freeze seawater, sea ice creates a world known by few people, a shifting, ephemeral, both jagged...
The Chaos Behind The Wall Socket
An Alaska college professor was not surprised when the lights went out over the northern tier of the U.S. and southeast Canada about 10...
Journey Into The Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes
I once visited the valley as one of a dozen people on a 10-day field trip with John Eichelberger, who then worked at the Alaska Volcano...
A Hike That Ends In A Beautiful Science Lesson
In the wildest part of the Eagle River valley, there's a hike that ends in a science lesson both simple and beautiful.
Rescued Polar Bear Heading To Lower 48
On Friday, Qannik the polar bear held forth in her temporary home at the Alaska Zoo.
Culvert Removal Helps Little Susitna Salmon
Small projects add up. That’s the Nature Conservancy’s approach to helping fish.
Numbering Alaska's Glaciers A Difficult Task
Not long ago, a glaciologist wrote that the number of glaciers in Alaska “is estimated at (greater than) 100,000.” That fuzzy...
Seeking Climate Change Clues in Air Above Arctic
The Coast Guard C-130 airplane flies low over the fractured springtime Arctic ice pack offshore from the town of Barrow. At the tail end...
Greenup Hits, So Does Pollen
Greenup -- the great, silent collective explosion of freed tree buds that had been frozen all winter like a clenched fist -- happened last...
USGS Embarks on Sea Otter Study
Marine biologists are in Alaska this week to start a joint U.S.-Canadian project to study sea otters and investigate the ecological health...
Fish and Game Begins Kenai King Count
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game began its annual count of Kenai king salmon Monday. This year, the department hopes to keep...
Native Corporations Sue Over Polar Bear Critical Habitat
More than a dozen Alaska Native corporations and other groups, including the North Slope Borough, sued the U.S. Department of the Interior...
Some Question Reintroduction of Endangered Species
The Endangered Species Act is a program that aims to protect, but some say it can cause more harm than good. A small herd of Wood Bison...
Beluga Critical Habitat Goes into Effect
Effective Wednesday, two areas comprising 3,013 square miles are designated critical habitat for Cook Inlet beluga whales.
Endangered Species Act a Battle Between Development, Federal Protection
A polar cub is gaining weight and getting healthy at the Alaska Zoo after oil field workers discovered her abandoned on Alaska's North Slope...
Technology, Tradition And Barrow's Spring Whale Hunt
One whaling crew in Barrow almost missed their biggest moment of the season so far late last week.
Rising Sea Levels Worry Local Researchers
A new report shows the Arctic is melting faster than expected, and that the oceans could rise significantly by the end of the century.
When humans and wildlife clash, she plays referee
When a beaver dam causes a creek to spill its banks and flood a crawl space, she gets a call. When a black bear develops a taste for garbage...
Wandering whitefish surprise biologists
Aaron Dupuis lost his fish. Last year, the graduate student installed radio tags
Pondering the future of Alaska landscapes
At the end of this century, more graceful white bodies of migrating trumpeter swans will glide over Alaska. Alpine slopes will be quieter,...
Autumn waters north of Barrow heavy with whales
Attracted by some of the smallest creatures in Alaska, dozens of the state's largest gathered last week off Point Barrow.
Hey, is that caterpillar looking at me?
On a recent expedition to Alaska’s Quartz Lake, four-year-old visitor to Alaska Garrett Ast plucked a caterpillar from a twig. As...
Friend remembers Ted Stevens' advocacy for Alaska science
When Syun-Ichi Akasofu first approached Ted Stevens, the Japanese-American leader of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical...
Visiting Alaska's champion black spruce
Forester Tom Malone once guided me on a trek to see Alaska’s largest black spruce tree. It was a short adventure. The 71-foot tree...
Dry wood is good wood
A friend says that among his most satisfying moments are those he stands contemplating his pile of firewood. He inhales the sweetness of...
August in Alaska: jet streams, wet weather and floods
In 1967 the Chena River spilled over its banks and flooded Fairbanks. For more than a week, the city core was underwater, and the town...
Rain curses, graces Alaska landscape
Rain. At this point in the brief Alaska summer, you may not be its greatest fan, especially if you live in Eagle, where rain has twice...
Did mammoth hunters warm the world?
Could ancient mammoth hunters have warmed the planet? A trio of scientists presents the idea in a new study.
12 million mosquitoes per acre? Must be summer in the north
In these days of endless sunshine and air that doesn't hurt to breathe, life is rich in the north, from the multitude of baby birds hatching...
Learning from whalers at the top of the world
"We're a long ways offshore," Craig George says. "The water beneath us is about 180 feet deep."
Q&A: Ned Rozell, science writer and Alaskan adventurer
Science writer Ned Rozell has an enviable job.
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