The Alaska we experience today and our children will experience in the future is not the Alaska of the past. According to the 2024 Arctic Report Card, released this week by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and co-authored by ten University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists, warming is affecting caribou populations, heat-trapping gas releases and […]
With his eyes on Alaska weather and climate for many years, Rick Thoman saw a need for a recent update on what is happening within America’s largest state. “Alaska was being hammered with extreme events,” he said. That resulted in the publication of Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0, a product of the Alaska Center for Climate […]
Humans are no strangers to sharing their food with their dogs: Look no further than the average American dining room. As it turns out, that’s been the case for millennia. In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, scientists were able to demonstrate that people and the ancestors of today’s dogs began forming […]
Most electrons that create the aurora have a moderate amount of energy, but scientists want to know more about how electrons on either side on that scale — more and less energy — affect the electrical properties of the ionosphere, the part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is ionized by the sun. These properties define […]