The Fish Creek Fire in Interior Alaska isn't much to look at. It's about 7,500 acres in size, sitting about an hour south of Fairbanks near the twisty Tanana River. The main fire front — the ...
The World Ice Art Championships (Ice Alaska) has extended their operations into April for 2026, a rare opportunity provided ...
Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Coniferous trees ...
Just under the forest floor, a vast fungal network known as mycelium builds, communicates and occasionally produces the fruiting bodies we call mushrooms. Now scientists are using this fungus to ...
Dan McGrath receives funding from the U.S. Geological Survey. Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When the river level begins ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Max Graham, a writer for High Country News, about Alaska's declining caribou population, and the state's plan to save them by shooting predators like grizzlies and wolves.
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The Christmas tree feels like a tradition from time immemorial—and in some ways it is.