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  • A smiling woman fills a basket with native grasses with a body of water in the background.

    Traditional healer to lead workshop on herbalism

    January 07, 2025

    Join traditional healer Molly Cerridwen in a free webinar, "Introduction to Herbalism," sponsored by the Alaska Tribes Extension, part of °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· Cooperative Extension Service. Cerridwen will share a few basic techniques for using plants' healing properties, with examples of how she uses them in her own life and practice.

  • A lightning bolt strikes a green forested hillside beyond a wide river in the foreground.

    Mystery of the dead caribou

    January 06, 2025

    Fifty-three years ago, an Army helicopter pilot flying over a tundra plateau saw a group of caribou. Thinking something looked weird, he circled for a closer look. The animals, dozens of them, were dead.

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    °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· to host New Year's Eve Sparktacular fireworks display

    December 20, 2024

    °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· will host the Fairbanks Curling Lions' 35th annual Sparktacular celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Fireworks will be launched from °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ·'s West Ridge starting at 8 p.m.

  • A Southern right whale, photographed from above, swimming with her calf, which is approximately one third her size.

    Study reveals right whales live 130 years -- or more

    December 20, 2024

    New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years -- almost twice as long as previously understood.

  • A greenhouse is lit up with bright pink lights on a dark, snowy campus

    Lighting upgrades turn °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· greenhouse pink

    December 20, 2024

    Keen observers might have noticed that the orange glow from a °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· greenhouse recently shifted to pink. The color change came with lighting upgrades this summer at the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Greenhouse on the West Ridge of the °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· Troth Yeddha' Campus.

  • Two people stand next to a °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· sign as a pickup idles nearby producing a white plume of exhaust. An illuminated temperature reading on the sign reads minus 41F.  In the background is an evergreen-covered hill topped with a building. A large smokestack from a powerplant also rises above the pickup and trees.

    Ancient beavers, sea floor bumps, thick air

    December 20, 2024

    It's time to start emptying the notebook following the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 25,000 scientists shared their work during five days.

  • Aurora over °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ·

    First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth

    December 19, 2024

    Newly published results from a 2021 experiment led by a °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky.

  • Sean Regan and copy of Geology journal

    Denali Fault tore apart ancient joining of two landmasses

    December 19, 2024

    New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today’s Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land masses. That feature was then torn apart by millions of years of tectonic activity.

  • New report offers insights into the future of community solar in Alaska

    December 18, 2024

    A new report by °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼Àúʷ’ Alaska Center for Energy and Power provides a roadmap for future developments of community solar.

  • four people walk through the snow, with snow falling, toward a building.

    °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· offices closed for the winter break

    December 16, 2024

    Most offices at °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· will close for the winter break from Dec. 24, 2024, to Jan. 1, 2025. Some offices will also close or have reduced hours Dec. 16-23 and Jan. 2-3.

  • At night, cars and people crowd a street outside a brightly lit, several-story glass-fronted building with a large poster featuring the words

    More familiar news of the North

    December 13, 2024

    I am once again elbow to elbow with thousands of scientists, at a meeting I first attended 25 years ago.

  • Colored lights shine from an arched trellis and trees in a snowy garden

    Georgeson Botanical Garden transformed into a winter wonderland

    December 12, 2024

    Take a stroll through a winter wonderland under the Arctic Lights at the Georgeson Botanical Garden. The garden, on °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· Troth Yeddha' Campus, will be festooned with lights on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 19 through Jan. 18.

  • University of Alaska marine energy projects receive $1.5 million

    December 11, 2024

    The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $1.5 million to two °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼Àúʷ’ Alaska Center for Energy and Power projects to advance marine energy research and education.

  • A man adjusts the round door of a large freeze-dryer

    Webinar to discuss holiday food safety

    December 10, 2024

    Learn how to keep yourself and your family safe in a free online presentation given by Leif Albertson, a health, home and family development agent with °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· Cooperative Extension Service. Albertson will summarize the proper cooking, cooling and reheating practices for keeping dishes and families safe.

  • Caribou on a tundra hillside.

    Arctic Report Card spotlights caribou, seals and carbon

    December 10, 2024

    According to the 2024 Arctic Report Card, released this week by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and co-authored by ten °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· scientists, warming is affecting caribou populations, heat-trapping gas releases and many other parts of the ecosystem.

  • A flock of colorful birds perch in a frosty birch tree

    Join OneTree Alaska to celebrate solstice under a full moon

    December 09, 2024

    Enjoy a beautiful evening in OneTree Alaska's birch grove under the full moon just before the winter solstice. Between 3:30-7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, participants can learn about the long-term monitoring of birch trees in °ÄÃŲʿª½±½á¹û¼Ç¼ÀúÊ· T-field and celebrate the tree stewardship that supports OneTree's mission.

  • In between mountains, a broad column of smoke rises from a evergreen forest just beyond a highway lined with buildings.

    Alaska continues to change, fast

    December 06, 2024

    With his eyes on Alaska weather and climate for many years, Rick Thoman saw a need for a recent update on what is happening within America's largest state.

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