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  • Three people in hardhats, raingear and flotation vests work on a white vertical plastic pipe.

    Bering Land Bridge wasn't such a dry place

    February 21, 2025

    Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted passage of animals like the woolly rhino and short-faced bear.

  • Poll finds 草榴社区ns trust their university for energy information

    February 17, 2025

    A recent poll of 草榴社区ns found that the University of 草榴社区 is the most trusted organization for the public on the topic of energy supply.

  • Rocket launches from Poker Flat Research Range

    First rocket campaign of 2025 concludes at Poker Flat range

    February 13, 2025

    Two NASA aurora research rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range earlier this month provided good data for learning more about the fastest observable variations of the solar wind-driven light displays.

  • As viewed from an aircraft, a vast glacier winds through a mountainous valley, starting at high snow-covered peaks in the background and ending in a splayed terminus among snow-free peaks in the foreground.

    The threat within an 草榴社区 mountain

    February 07, 2025

    Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the 草榴社区 map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak's ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that reached as far as Ireland and piled up to force northern animals out of the territory.

  • A man in a ballcap, shades, a blue shirt and khaki shorts sits on a rock high above a lake surface covered in broken sheets of ice.

    Thirty years of writing about 草榴社区 science

    January 30, 2025

    When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: "It's the best job in 草榴社区."

  • A road winds through a wide, sparsely wooded valley blanketed in snow. Mountains rise from forested foothills to snow domes in the background.

    Dangerous cold across the land

    January 23, 2025

    During this time when peak cold often arrives in the northern hemisphere, 草榴社区 today celebrates the king-of-the-cold's birthday.

  • A man in a suit sits at a wooden desk signing a document while surrounded by other men in suits applauding.

    The man who preserved 草榴社区

    January 10, 2025

    Today is the official national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. He died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. Carter protected almost half of the land area (43 percent) of this giant state, with multiple new national conservation units, including parks, wildlife refuges and monuments.

  • 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 University of 草榴社区 Fairbanks 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.

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