A team of scientists is descending on a former nuclear test site in the Aleutians today to search for damage from a massive earthquake.
Science & Tech
Why don’t hibernating bears get osteoporosis?
Bears have the right idea. Don’t fight the cold; just shut ‘er down for six months and emerge when it’s warmer. Why didn’t we think of that?
Touring by Tesla
Guy Hall is an electric car evangelist. He drove from the California-Mexico border to Fairbanks in a Tesla Model S to spread the word.
Subsistence hunters helping test food security in western Alaska
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is distributing the paper to subsistence hunters to collect blood specimens from subsistence mammals.
High-tech bird decoy fools flycatchers
Julie Hagelin needed a fake bird. She found one in an unexpected place.
New geotags to shed light on Auklet migrations
Every summer, thousands of tiny auklets flock to the Aleutian Islands to nest. But scientists don’t know where the seabirds go in the winter.
Is the mine tailings dam failure in B.C. a warning for Alaska?
Monday’s tailings dam failure could threaten Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries. Critics say similar dams closer to the border could suffer the same fate.
Report: Alaska tourists may shift to new areas because of climate change
A retreating Mendenhall Glacier, for example, could affect organic food supply for Auke Bay whales, salmon
Tracks across Greenland ice, 60 years apart
On top of an ice body more than two miles thick, Chris Polashenski last summer hoped to find a candy wrapper that might have fallen from Carl Benson’s pocket 60 years ago.
Donors pay to test seawater for traces of Fukushima radiation
Radiation experts don’t believe there is cause for alarm on our shores, but some coastal residents are stepping forward to pay for seawater testing just to be sure.