Alaska climate report: Record low maximum Arctic sea ice

April 09, 2025

Winter's sea ice extent in the Arctic set a new record low as it peaked March 22, according to the Alaska Climate Research Center's monthly report.

Kick off the Fairbanks gardening season with hands-on workshop

April 08, 2025

Get your hands dirty and learn about starting seedlings indoors before the outdoor growing season begins. At a workshop, Mallory Smith of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station will share her top tips and tricks for cultivating healthy seedlings.

New assessment shows gain of coastline from receding glaciers

April 08, 2025

New research gives a detailed look at the extent to which receding glaciers in Alaska and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere are creating new coastline and how that newly exposed terrain is behaving.

Free webinar covers the topic of cover crops

April 08, 2025

Learn about the different kinds of cover crops and their uses in a free webinar led by University of Alaska Fairbanks soils scientist Caley Gasch.

The great hollow of Minto Flats

April 03, 2025

Within a vast bowl bordered by blue hills, I rolled along on a trail scratched into ice by snowmachines. That deceptive basin -- Minto Flats -- is big enough to swallow Denali, if the big mountain happened to stumble in here and fall.

UAF's annual Science Potpourri set for April 12

April 02, 2025

The annual Science Potpourri returns to the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday, April 12. Designed to spark children's curiosity about the sciences, this free all-ages event will take place from noon to 3 p.m. in the Reichardt Building on the Troth Yeddha' Campus.

Launch of third NASA rocket completes complex aurora mission

April 01, 2025

The third and final NASA sounding rocket in a mission to better understand how the aurora affects the upper atmosphere launched at 1:33 a.m. Saturday and dispersed white vapor tracers high over central Alaska.

Control strategies for pretty, but invasive, orange hawkweed

April 01, 2025

Don't be fooled by orange hawkweed, a dainty little orange flower that can take over your pasture, lawn or wildflower garden. In a free statewide webinar, learn how orange hawkweed's biology makes it so invasive and how to use that biology to control it.

Museum family programs highlight trees in April

April 01, 2025

Family programs at the University of Alaska Museum of the North will focus on trees during April.

Sample Cajun etouffee in Sitka cook-off

March 31, 2025

Join the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service in Sitka for a Cajun cuisine cooking competition: The Sitka Etouffee-Off.

Microplastics contaminate spotted seal diets in remote Alaska waters

March 31, 2025

Spotted seals in some of the most remote marine areas around Alaska are consuming significant amounts of microplastics in their diets, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks-led study.

Workshop discusses science behind selecting vegetable varieties

March 31, 2025

Learn about the hardiness, yield and taste of different varieties of 10 common garden vegetables during an in-person workshop in Delta Junction.

Journalism, the First Amendment and covering Trump

March 28, 2025

A roundtable of journalists and University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty members will discuss the media's role as President Donald Trump seeks to remake the federal government and punish perceived enemies in the press and judiciary.

Learn the basics of Alaska gardening in workshop series

March 28, 2025

Grow your gardening knowledge in this series of 11 weekly webinars covering the basics of growing vegetables in Alaska. Casey Matney, the Kenai-based agriculture and horticulture agent with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, will lead the free classes.

Snow's absence and welcome presence

March 28, 2025

Rick Thoman noted in a recent report that the paucity of 2024-2025 snowfall in Anchorage and other Southcentral Alaska locations may be unprecedented in the era of modern records.

UAF donors contribute $812,373 during Giving Day 2025

March 27, 2025

More than 1,100 University of Alaska Fairbanks supporters donated $812,373 during the fifth annual UA Giving Day event March 25-27. The event set another participation record for UAF, with 1,150 donors making gifts to more than 80 scholarships, programs and initiatives over the course of 49 hours.

'Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment' report updated

March 27, 2025

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has released an updated report highlighting recent wildfire trends in Alaska, their impacts to humans and wildlife, and how science can improve wildfire management decisions. "Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment 2.0" provides people with timely, reliable and understandable information in a visually appealing and concise format.