by Ned Rozell | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Science
LeConte Glacier near Petersburg is the farthest-south glacier that spills into the sea on this side of the equator. Where that ice tongue dips into salty water, scientists recently measured melting much greater than predicted.
by alaskabusiness | Jul 18, 2019 | News, Science
Humans have for a long time admired the design of this creature, one that can fly backwards and zigzag with abrupt turns.
by Ned Rozell | Jul 11, 2019 | Education, Engineering, Government, News, Science
Marked by metal cones and a clear-cut swath twenty feet wide, Alaska’s border with Canada is one of the great feats of wilderness surveying.
by Ned Rozell | Jun 28, 2019 | Alaska Native, Engineering, News, Science
The relocation of an Alaska village is happening fast this summer, after many years of planning and work.
by Ned Rozell | Jun 21, 2019 | Education, News, Science
Mark Ross, a naturalist at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks, invented the cross-country, solstice-celebrating AlaskAcross—a nonstop 60-mile hiking traverse in northern Alaska, from Lost Creek to Eureka.
by Ned Rozell | Jun 14, 2019 | Education, News, Science
On sandy barrier islands between mountains and the sea, two different birds that look alike lay their eggs side-by-side. Biologists here are learning more about the less-common, more mysterious one.
by Ned Rozell | Jun 7, 2019 | Featured, News, Science
While the tides stopped in Russell Fjord, the meltwater from glaciers did not. During the five-month closure, water within Russell Fjord and the connected arm of Nunatak Fjord crept upward.
by Ned Rozell | May 28, 2019 | News, Science
Every spring, millions of ducks touch down on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a spread of muskeg and dark water the size of Maryland. These days, more ruddy ducks seem to be among them.
by Arie Henry | May 16, 2019 | Arctic, Featured, News, Oil & Gas, Science, Transportation
The icebreaking tanker SS Manhattan was an oil company’s attempt to see if it might be profitable to move Alaska oil to the East Coast by plowing through the ice-clogged Northwest Passage.
by Ned Rozell | May 9, 2019 | News, Science
Brittany Jones’s goal is to find out the respiration rates of five species of clams. But why should anyone care about clam breath?