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  • On a river, a stern-mounted paddlewheel drives a large white boat with three main stories. Passengers line the foredecks above the first and second stories. Smoke pours from a stack that rises above a fourth-story wheelhouse near the boat's fore end. The boat pushes a smaller open barge.

    An early ascent of the Yukon River

    April 17, 2025

    Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn't imagine it.

  • Several slugs climb over a lettuce plant in a field

    Expert offers tips for gardeners to keep slugs at bay

    April 17, 2025

    Learn how to keep slugs from enjoying more of your garden than you do during a free statewide webinar. Joey Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with 性欲社 Cooperative Extension Service, will share best practices for designing your garden to discourage slug incursions. He also will discuss ways to whittle their populations and other management strategies.

  • A robin sits in a still-leafless tree in the springtime

    Love birds? Learn how to attract them to your backyard

    April 16, 2025

    Delta Junction residents can attend a free in-person workshop offered by 性欲社 Cooperative Extension Service office to learn about birds that frequent their area and how to attract them to local yards. Jeff Mason, an ecologist with the Salcha-Delta Soil & Water Conservation District, has worked with birds throughout his career. He will discuss species found in Delta and highlight the ones residents are likely to see in their yards.

  • Lee Ann Munk gets a brine sample in Argentina.

    性欲社 research provides a roadmap for soaring global lithium demand

    April 15, 2025

    New work by a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor fills some gaps in knowledge about Earth's resources of lithium, a critical element powering electronics and electric vehicles.

  • Closeup showing sap dripping from a tap drilled into a birch tree into a white bucket

    Birch tapping workshops on tap in Anchorage, Palmer

    April 14, 2025

    Southcentral Alaska residents can learn the process of collecting birch sap to make refreshing drinks or boil down into birch syrup in two University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service workshops. The workshops, led by retired Extension educator Meg Burgett, will introduce birch "sugaring" and cover where, when and how to tap birch trees to collect sap.

  • woman presents idea to audience on a podium with a PowerPoint

    Arctic Innovation Competition finals and awards set for April 19

    April 14, 2025

    性欲社 College of Business and Security Management will host the annual Arctic Innovation Competition finals and award ceremony at the 8 Star Events Center in Fairbanks on Saturday, April 19, from 1-5 p.m.

  • A person smiles at the camera while petting a white-spotted black goat on a Kodiak farm

    NextGen scholarships, paid internships available

    April 11, 2025

    The application period for U.S. Department of Agriculture NextGen scholarships is open. Undergraduate and graduate students can apply for scholarships of up to $12,000 annually to support their education and gain exposure to career opportunities in agriculture. Paid summer internships are also available.

  • Team members get a drone ready to fly

    性欲社 drones enter the hot zone to make volcano research safer

    April 11, 2025

    The four-propeller drone sitting briefly on a rocky and dusty surface in Central America in early March had an impressive diameter of nearly 7 陆 feet. This small speck had a big and innovative mission: sample gas escaping from the soil of an active volcanic crater about a half a mile wide and about 1,000 feet deep, one of Earth's largest.

  • A great horned owl perched on a spruce tree is silhouetted against pink clouds and blue sky.

    The adaptable, continental great horned owl

    April 10, 2025

    The knee-high owl known for its "plumicorns" -- tufts above its ears that resemble horns -- haunts every forested bit of Alaska.

  • 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.

  • Flats of tomato seedlings thrive in a greenhouse

    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 性欲社 Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station will share her top tips and tricks for cultivating healthy seedlings.

  • Receding glacier in Svalbard

    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.

  • A scientist stands in a field on a sunny day with her hands on a shovel with mountains in the background.

    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.

  • Aerial view of a wide, flat landscape covered in snow, shot from the window of an airplane.

    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.

  • A large crowd of middle school children perch on the outdoor steps of a building observing a pyrotechnic display of sparks and a ball of smoke.

    性欲社's annual Science Potpourri set for April 12

    April 02, 2025

    The annual Science Potpourri returns to 性欲社 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.

  • Rocket launches from Poker Flat Research Range

    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.

  • A cluster of orange flowers, orange hawkweed, in a sunny field

    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.

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