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The latest installment of the art and science collaborative known as In a Time of Change is currently on view at the Fairbanks Arts Association’s Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park. The collaborative process enhanced interaction among artists to create works that re-imagine the boreal forest in the new exhibit called “Boreal Echoes.”

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have documented the potent greenhouse gas methane coming from dry uplands of thawing permafrost. The discovery is adding to global climate change concerns.

For the past decade more Arctic residents have noticed an increase in beavers and the way they change the land and affect other animals. The Arctic Beaver Observation Network, or ABON is meeting for three days in Fairbanks to inform each other about new findings.

Local veterinarians are hearing about a new study that could help older dogs with Canine Cognitive Dysfunction. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Veterinary Medicine are hoping to advance studies on a drug that could help older dogs, but also translate to helping humans with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Scientists at University of Alaska Fairbanks have mapped out where a prehistoric mammoth spent her life in what’s now Canada and Alaska and found evidence of human hunter camps in many of the same places.

Trains are the focus at the university archives as they celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska Railroad. As part of National Archives Month, the public is invited to an open house on Thursday.

Millions of dollars of research and operations come through the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Director Bob McCoy talked to local business leaders this week about how that impacts the community.

Earthquakes in the Nenana Basin last longer and feel much stronger than quakes of comparable magnitude in other places. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are studying why.

The Alaska Voices project, launched as a podcast in early May, is designed to build bridges of knowledge through conversations between Alaskans about…

A delegation of politicians affiliated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met with researchers and officials during a stopover Thursday at the…