science

The first Americans ate a lot of mammoth about 13,000 years ago, after entering through Alaska to rapidly populate North America.That’s according to a study co-authored by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and published in the journal Science Advances.

An article by Fairbanks writer Amy Loeffler is featured in the prestigious national anthology Best American Food Writing, released next week.

A large part of the Denali Park Road is closing tomorrow so scientists can collar bears. The big landslide that closed the road in Denali National Park and Preserve could be changing the way animals live in the Park.

Ten Alaskan communities will join hundreds of others worldwide Saturday to show support for science and the role it plays in improving the lives of…

The Research Vessel Sikuliaq was officially commissioned Saturday in a ceremony at the boats’s home port in Seward. As KUAC’s Tim Ellis reports, the…

Fairbanks, AK - Two years ago, one biologist set out to try and count the number of shorebirds that migrate to and from Alaska each summer. The data…

Fairbanks, AK - Most of the field work that will happen in Alaska this summer has wrapped up and scientists are now hard at work preparing samples for…

Fairbanks, AK - America’s birds are in trouble. That’s according to two reports out earlier this month from the National Audubon Society and the…

Fairbanks, AK - Alaska’s glaciers are shrinking faster than scientists had thought, but glaciers that terminate in the ocean may be relatively resilient…

Fairbanks, AK - Scientists have long believed melting permafrost emits large amounts of carbon-rich greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide to…