An unusual seismic signal recorded less than a minute before a widely felt magnitude 4.2 earthquake in central Alaska may have given scientists a rare look at how earthquakes begin. Reliable observations of activity seconds to minutes before an earthquake occurs are rare. That’s what makes the Aug. 20, 2025, event special. Analysis led […]
(Kenai, AK) – 36-year-old Kirby Calderwood was sentenced to serve 87 years in prison Thursday for the 2019 murder of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane. Calderwood pled guilty to Murder in the Second Degree on Feb. 5, 2026 under a plea agreement that called for him to receive a sentence of 99 years with 12 years suspended […]
Micah Hahn, M.P.H., Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health in UAA’s Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, is the principal investigator and a co-author on a scientific paper published in May in the journal Environmental Research: Health. The paper, titled “Community-based low-cost air monitoring for wildfire smoke resilience: an implementation science evaluation in rural Alaska,” is currently […]
“The Justice Department that should be fighting to protect clean air and water and avert catastrophic climate change will now work on behalf of polluters to advance the poisoning of people and the planet.” The executive counsel at the fossil fuel behemoth ExxonMobil is leaving his role to join the Trump Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and […]