Nature & Outdoors

Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska has become the latest addition to the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s ground-based monitoring network. An observatory team in early September installed three seismic and Global...

Most of Earth’s near-surface permafrost could be gone by 2100, an international team of scientists has concluded after comparing current climate trends to the planet’s climate 3 million...

Alaska’s leading public uncrewed aircraft program made another significant advance Friday when a drone flew from the Nenana airport and landed at Fairbanks International Airport. The flight, conducted by a University of...

The Pogo Mine Road fire burns on August 5th, 2023. Photo by Duane Morris/Alaska Division of Forestry Getting information about where wildfire smoke is headed in Alaska has become easy for the...

There was a time when Christine Gabriele wondered if she’d ever see one of her favorite creatures again. That 42-year-old female humpback whale — known as whale #219 to Gabriele and other...

Beaver dam on the Seward Peninsula. Image-Ken Tape The climate-driven advance of beavers into the Arctic tundra is causing the release of more methane — a greenhouse gas — into...

ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ — Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green landscape on Aug. 25, 2023. Using a metal pole that was part of a...

More than 20,000 lightning strikes hit the surface of Alaska from 6 am July 24th to 6 am July 25th 2023. Graphic from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Waking to the smell...