Researchers on the Sikuliaq have used an array of technology to survey the ocean floor of the Canada Basin and adjacent Chukchi Borderlands.
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Children born after 2020 will experience up to 7 times more extreme climate events
Heat waves will be the most prevalent extreme climate event.
Biden’s new Arctic Research appointees increase Alaska representation on commission
The U.S. Arctic Research Commission is an eight-member board that advises on Arctic policy and research priorities.
From a fossilized tusk, UAF researchers unraveled the life story of a woolly mammoth
A new University of Alaska Fairbanks study explores the life story of a woolly mammoth that lived 17,000 years ago.
Belgian woman stopping in Juneau during record-setting solo flight around the world
Zara Rutherford, 19, is attempting to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. She hopes to show other girls and young women they can fly, too. And, to inspire them to get into science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
NASA is launching a new telescope that could offer some cosmic eye candy
The new telescope, the largest and most powerful ever put into space, will travel to a lonely spot 1 million miles from Earth, where it will be able to peer out into the farthest reaches of the universe.
Scientists say they could bring back woolly mammoths. But maybe they shouldn’t
A company called Colossal is proposing would actually be a hybrid created using a gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 to splice bits of DNA recovered from frozen mammoth specimens into that of an Asian elephant, the mammoth’s closest living relative.
NOAA breaks ground on upgraded port facility in Ketchikan to host research vessel Fairweather
A long-sought revitalization of a NOAA facility in Ketchikan is officially underway.
As streams warm, cold water inputs could be crucial for salmon
Cook Inlet has some of the warmest measured streams in Alaska. Temperatures are expected to climb as climate change accelerates, which isn’t good for the salmon that traffic those areas.
3 volcanoes erupting across Aleutian Range
Three volcanoes are erupting across the Aleutian Range — Great Sitkin and Semisopochnoi in the Aleutian Islands and Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula.