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  • Rime ice on brush at Toolik Lake

    Alaska climate report: May 2025 kept its cool

    June 11, 2025

    The month of May was noticeably cooler around Alaska, but data from the Alaska Climate Â鶹¹ÙÍø Center at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks show that monthly mean temperatures weren't much below normal. It was enough, however, to get people talking about it.
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  • Aerial of Poker Flat Â鶹¹ÙÍø Range

    UAF Geophysical Institute, Alaska Aerospace to boost space opportunity

    June 10, 2025

    The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Alaska Aerospace Corp. will work together under a new agreement to jointly develop and offer spaceport services to the booming commercial rocket and satellite industry.
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  • A log is positioned in a portable mill

    Delta arborist to lead workshops on pruning, milling, chainsaw maintenance

    June 10, 2025

    Three workshops in Delta Junction this month will focus on tree pruning techniques, operating a portable sawmill and chainsaw maintenance. Jesse Roman, a licensed arborist who recently moved to Delta Junction, will lead the in-person workshops, which are hosted by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and Partners for Progress in Delta.
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  • A whale tail creates a spray of foam against a dark blue sky as the animal dives below the ocean surface.

    UAF research features in global marine megafauna study

    June 09, 2025

    UAF researchers contributed to a new study in the journal Science which aims to improve marine conservation efforts by identifying the busiest migration corridors and critical habitats of the oceans' largest species.
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  • A painting depicts a brown furry elephant-like creature in three different illustrations.

    Mastodons long gone from the far north

    June 06, 2025

    A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark.
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  • Week's events: Anne Hanley, medications, traditional healing, eclectic groove

    June 06, 2025

    Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 9-15.
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  • A woman shows two children how to take ocean water samples as they stand on a beach in Southeast Alaska

    4-H pH program gives Sitka youth a taste of ocean science

    June 05, 2025

    Youth in Sitka spent five months testing the water as part of an ocean acidification education program called 4-H pH. The project, funded by the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, is part of a citizen science program called Global Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment Program, or GLOBE.
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  • People look at a patch of white mold at the base of a sunflower stalk

    Learn about common plant diseases and management options

    June 05, 2025

    All plants are susceptible to disease, which can be caused by both living organisms and environmental conditions. Todd Steinlage, a plant pathologist with the Alaska Plant Materials Center, will discuss common diseases in Alaska and management options for them in a free webinar hosted by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service.
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  • Thumbnail photos of a man and two women who are finalists for UAF Cooperative Extension director

    Cooperative Extension director finalist presentations scheduled

    June 04, 2025

    The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will host Zoom presentations from three finalists vying to serve as the program's new director. The finalists -- Joe Sanders, Annie Steed and Jenn Wagaman -- will present talks about their vision for the program's next 10 years and its economic and geographic challenges.
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  • Maps show projected sea surface temperature trends over 2015-2099 due to moderate-high greenhouse gas emissions. The upper map includes a model where winds can't change the ocean circulation, and the lower one shows the same model with wind-driven changes.

    Changing winds could amplify North Atlantic climate anomaly

    June 04, 2025

    As the planet's oceans are gradually warmed by the effects of climate change, a huge area in the North Atlantic stands out as an unusual zone of relative cooling. A region that stretches roughly from Greenland to Ireland, counterintuitively dubbed the North Atlantic warming hole, is a conspicuous patch of blue on global climate change maps. Â鶹¹ÙÍøers say its temperature contrast could intensify in the decades ahead as shifting climate-driven winds amplify the cooling process in the North Atlantic.
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  • Four youths stand around a shelter they are building in the forest of Southeast Alaska

    Juneau camp focuses on Southeast Alaska culture, activities

    June 03, 2025

    Registration is open for the AK Experience Camp in Juneau, a collaboration between the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service 4-H program and Goldbelt Heritage Foundation. The camp theme is Aani Yaa Du.óow "Perspectives of The Land." It will focus on cultural connections, outdoor exploration and traditional ecological knowledge.
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  • Photographed from behind, a person works on a small laptop beside a large screen showing a map of Juneau overlaid with large red area indicating a flooding scenario.

    New website improves Juneau flood preparedness

    May 30, 2025

    A new flood preparedness website for Juneau residents is now live. The Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard was developed by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. The first-of-its-kind, publicly accessible website shares interactive flood inundation maps and provides valuable flood forecasting information for the Mendenhall Valley under different glacial lake outburst flood scenarios.
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  • Two muskox babies romp on a sunny spring day with their mother watching in the background.

    LARS to host birthday bash for baby muskoxen, reindeer

    May 30, 2025

    The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks' Large Animal Â鶹¹ÙÍø Station will introduce its new reindeer and muskox calves at its annual Birthday Bash from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 7.
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  • Week's events: Legacy Lecture, aging and dementia, Indigenous sovereignty, blues-rock

    May 30, 2025

    Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 2-8.
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  • A man in a white hardhat and orange safety vest talks while pointing to a metal structure under a large pipe. Other men stand around him listening.

    The greatest story of man and permafrost

    May 29, 2025

    In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world -- an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Decades later, Johnson looked back at what he called "the greatest story ever told of man's interaction with permafrost."
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