[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1908, a colossal blast incinerated a swath of wilderness deep in Siberia, at about the same latitude as Anchorage. The explosion that July day registered on seismic recorders all over the world. Within minutes, 80 million trees lay flat and scorched in a circle 60 miles wide. Scientists calculated the shock was more than […]
Materials from Arctic Shelves are Changing the Water’s Composition: Scientists say the input of shelf-derived materials to the central Arctic Ocean over the past decade appears to be increasing. They further note that this increase is altering the water’s composition and could threaten biological productivity and species assemblages. Their results provide one of the first […]
While investigators with the Special Crimes Investigation Unit was in the Dowling area on Halloween evening, they reported that they had seen a man known to have a Felony Eluding warrant driving by the area in a vehicle. Troopers immediately called in the sighting at 4:20 pm. ASTÂ followed the vehicle and with assistance from Anchorage […]
Uma Bhatt remembers summers in Fairbanks when she could open a package of crackers, leave it unsealed, and find them in a near-identical state a few weeks later. Those crackers now seem to lose their snap in just a few days. An atmospheric scientist at UAF, Bhatt gave a recent talk on a rainy October […]