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  • Arctic Ocean ice shrinks to second lowest on record

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    The countdown to the annual Arctic slush cup has ended, and the realm of polar bear and ice seal has shrunk yet again. The meltback may not be as bad as last year, but it’s worse than any other season logged by the satellite record. How bad was it? The [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2008, 7:49am EDT
    by Doug O'Harra

  • Arctic sea ice extent plunges toward record

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    Summer hiatus is over. Far North Science returns to discover the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean has shriveled like an ice cube in a pitcher of lukewarm lemonade. The eye-in-the-sky scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center say the far north’s frozen cover — the Earth’s air [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 7:38am EDT
    by Doug O'Harra

  • Bad desert air and a glacier that licks a river

    Atmospheric scientist Cathy Cahill points to two recent air samples from Baghdad, one showing dust and the other fine trapped particles from burned diesel fuel. Photo by Ned Rozell This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2008, 2:18pm EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • The latest word on Alaska birds

    A barred owl in Juneau. Unknown in Alaska before the late 1970s, barred owls are now the second most-abundant owl in Southeast. Photo by Paul Suchanek. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2008, 9:12am EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • Filling in the Alaska Permafrost Map

    Kenji Yoshikawa drills a hole to monitor permafrost in the Seward Peninsula village of Wales. Photo by Ned Rozell This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. Fifteen days, [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2008, 9:18am EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • A day in the life of Kenji Yoshikawa

    The Iditarod trail between the Seward Peninsula villages of Elim and Golovin. Kenji Yoshikawa is traveling along part of the trail to visit schools and install permafrost boreholes. Photo by Ned Rozell. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2008, 8:57am EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • On the long trail to permafrost

    A sunset over Norton Sound as seen from the village of Stebbins. Photo by Ned Rozell. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. STEBBINS — ”There’s no permafrost [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2008, 8:18am EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • Green, leafy invaders finding a home in Alaska

    Hairy catsear is an invasive plant that is spreading into Alaska. Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. With only five roads [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2008, 3:00am EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • The mystery of mammoth tusks with iron fillings

    Embedded iron particles surrounded by carbonized rings in the outer layer of a mammoth tusk from Alaska. Inset photo shows how an object ripped through the tusk. Image courtesy Richard Firestone. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 3:00am EDT
    by Ned Rozell

  • Alaskans’ Astronomical Bragging Rights

    Crab Nebula Courtesy of Neil Davis Texans are known as braggarts, but in the arena of geography, they can’t start to compete with Alaskans who can brag about the facts that we are the biggest state, the northernmost state, the westernmost state, and the easternmost state, plus we have the longest coastline [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2008, 2:00am EST
    by Neil Davis

  • Scientists spy mythic white orca in the Aleutians

    Thar He Blows! The white whale was a type of orca that eats only fish. Credit: H. Fearnbach/NMML NMFS permit 782-1719 Fisheries biologists cruising the remote Aleutian Islands on a pollock survey caught sight of one of the North Pacific’s rarest creatures: a white orca. Rather than sporting the species’ iconic black-and-white markings, the [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2008, 9:35am EST
    by Doug O'Harra

  • Drained lake holds record of ancient Alaska

    After holding water for centuries, Iceberg Lake in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains drained in 1999 and has lost its water every year since except 2001. Photo by Mike Loso. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 2:00am EST
    by Ned Rozell

  • Fifty-year-old science booklet waxes eloquent

    One of the six posters produced for the National Academy of Sciences in 1958 to mark the last International Polar Year, also known as the International Geophysical Year. Courtesy The National Academies. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2008, 1:53pm EST
    by Ned Rozell

  • Prehistoric sea ‘Monster’ uncovered in Arctic

    The pliosaur would have ruled the sea More images from the project Artwork by Tor Sponga, BT Forget Jurassic Park and those cuddly velociraptors. For a real prehistoric nightmare, check out what an international team of scientists unearthed last year in the far north Atlantic island group of Svalbard. With jaws large to [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2008, 9:08am EST
    by Doug O'Harra

  • The Climate of Alaska hits bookstores

    A lone canoeist at Ballaine Lake in Fairbanks on a smoky summer day in 2004. Photo by Ned Rozell, from The Climate of Alaska This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2008, 3:18pm EST
    by Ned Rozell

  • Tree line changes on the Kenai Peninsula

    The tree line is crawling up on north slopes on the Kenai Peninsula. Phtoto by Ned Rozell This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. The late Yule Kilcher, [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 2:00am EST
    by Ned Rozell
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