Fairbanks energy burden is the Railbelt’s highest, report finds

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Fairbanks energy burden is the Railbelt’s highest, report finds

A new report by University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers reveals the energy burden for Fairbanks North Star Borough residents to be drastically higher than the Lower 48. Energy burden, as defined in this report, is the percentage of annual income spent on residential energy services such as space heating and electricity. The energy consumption and […]

Researchers find unexpectedly large methane source in overlooked landscape

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Researchers find unexpectedly large methane source in overlooked landscape

When Katey Walter Anthony heard rumors of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ballooning under the lawns of fellow Fairbanks residents, she nearly didn’t believe it. “I ignored it for years because I thought ‘I am a limnologist, methane is in lakes,’” she said. But when a local reporter contacted Walter Anthony, who is a research […]

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