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  • 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.

  • Two people stand next to a 澳门彩开奖结果记录历史 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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