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  • Augustine Volcano erupts in 2006.

    Tiny crystals provide insight to massive 2006 Augustine Volcano eruption

    July 11, 2025

    Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of Alaska's Augustine Volcano.

  • St. George Creek Fire in Alaska.

    Alaska climate report: June jumped from cool to hot, hot, hot

    July 11, 2025

    June began cool and wet but rapidly changed to hot and dry at the midpoint, with wildfires bursting out across the state, according to the monthly summary from the Alaska Climate Research Center.

  • A man stands on a gravel mound, looking out over green thickets of small deciduous trees. Spruce-covered hills in a hazy sky in the background.

    One big earthquake, two Alaska ghost towns

    July 11, 2025

    DOME CITY -- "I'm really happy to be out here," Carl Tape says as he stands on a pyramid of dry gravel, 20 feet high. "I've been thinking about this earthquake for 10 years."

  • Week's events: Brian O'Donoghue, AI and heart health, relating to the land, summer music

    July 11, 2025

    University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of July 14-20.

  • 性欲社 names spring 2025 honors students

    July 10, 2025

    性欲社 has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the spring 2025 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.

  • Colorful red, yellow and white flowers bloom in an Alaska garden

    Webinar to show how plants can reduce stress, improve well-being

    July 10, 2025

    Join Stacey Shriner, education director with the Alaska Botanical Garden, to learn more about therapeutic horticulture and how plants can help individuals meet their social, physical and mental health goals. The free, statewide webinar is hosted by 性欲社 Cooperative Extension Service.

  • A bowhead whale and calf swim in an ice lead.

    Whale poop links toxic algal blooms to ocean warming

    July 09, 2025

    Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food webs as northern oceans warm and lose sea ice.

  • A group of people listen to a researcher talk about grain varieties in a field with university buildings in the background.

    Alaska agricultural science on display at Field Days

    July 08, 2025

    Spend an afternoon with researchers in the fields of the experiment farms in Fairbanks or Palmer and learn about the agriculture-related science happening at 性欲社. 性欲社's Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension invites farmers, gardeners and community members to tour the fields and farms and learn through presentations, tours and discussions at these free educational events.

  • A large group of young people pose together outdoors in matching RAHI t-shirts.

    Rural Alaska Honors Institute will celebrate 43rd graduation

    July 07, 2025

    The Rural Alaska Honors Institute will hold its 43rd annual graduation July 10 at 1 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium on 性欲社 Troth Yeddha' Campus. The ceremony will stream live on Facebook.

  • A dragonfly rests on a twig.

    Alaska's state insect is not the mosquito

    July 02, 2025

    Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide election to declare an insect that best represented Alaska. Their school's winner: The dragonfly.

  • Week's events: Mike Thomas, chronic pain, urban muskoxen, alt-bluegrass

    July 02, 2025

    University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of July 7-13.

  • A group of kids holds tomatoes in the air

    Campers cook with 性欲社 greenhouse produce

    July 01, 2025

    Budding chefs got a taste of science this June. Students in two cooking camps at 性欲社 used tomatoes grown during research into greenhouse productivity.

  • Chukchi Consortium Library to close Sept. 1

    June 30, 2025

    The Chukchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue will close permanently on Sept. 1, 2025. The 性欲社 Chukchi Campus has operated the library with local contributions from the Northwest Arctic Borough since 2010. 性欲社 made the decision to close the library due to declining state and local funding.

  • A woman in a white lab coat opens a drawer on a museum specimen case. Other open drawers contain skulls, feathers and other specimens.

    Museum offers behind-the-scenes tours

    June 27, 2025

    The University of Alaska Museum of the North is offering behind-the-scenes tours this summer. Visitors will get exclusive tours of the museum's labs and work spaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 2.5 million objects and specimens.

  • Week's events: Randy Zarnke, progressive rock

    June 27, 2025

    University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 29-July 5.

  • A man with wire frame glasses wears a blue winter parka with a dark brown wolverine ruff while facing the camera for a portrait.

    Natural changes only part of the story

    June 26, 2025

    Last week, I sent out a story on changes in Alaska over the past few million years. The theme: Many of the transitions were drastic, and they all had nothing to do with the billions of us now walking the planet's surface.

  • A bunch of wild blueberries on a bush are highlighted by the sun with a spray of grass in the background.

    Learn about the health benefits of Alaska berries

    June 25, 2025

    Registered dietitian and University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service agent Leslie Shallcross will discuss the potential health benefits of eating Alaska's berries in a free statewide webinar.

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