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  • Scientists in Swiss Alps

    Mountain glaciers will lose their insulating air layer

    October 16, 2025

    A natural cooling mechanism has been shielding the world's mountain glaciers from increasingly warm summer melt seasons, but new research by an international science team says the protective process will break down by mid-century.
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  • An ash cloud boils from an erupting volcano, as viewed from an aircraft high above.

    ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ volcano as climate disrupter

    October 16, 2025

    A circular scar on ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s face speaks to an event that may have contributed to the fall of societies on the far side of the world.
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  • Children in Halloween costumes handle fossils and look at a large dinosaur skull in a museum, with a smiling adult.

    Museum of the North to host Halloween activities

    October 16, 2025

    The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North will host its Halloween at the Museum celebration on Friday, Oct. 31, from 4 to 6 p.m.
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  • A rope holds streamers of brown kelp over the ocean

    Researcher to discuss benefits of using kelp as fertilizer

    October 15, 2025

    Kelp shows great promise for improving soil health and crop production in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. In a free webinar, Erin Oliver, a postdoctoral researcher with Washington State University, will discuss the lab and field studies conducted at the Matanuska Experiment Farm to investigate the effects of kelp on soil health and crop production.
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  • UAF names summer 2025 honors students

    October 15, 2025

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the summer 2025 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.
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  • A newly captured juvenile king salmon rests in a viewing box container, which allows researchers to identify fish species and measure their size.

    Acoustic tagging seeks answers to king salmon decline

    October 14, 2025

    An ambitious new research project is aiming to better understand the lives of king salmon by focusing on their difficult journey from freshwater habitat to the ocean. The project, a collaboration between the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ and ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Fish and Game, is using hundreds of acoustic tags and an array of underwater hydrophones to track young salmon as they navigate the Kenai River to Cook Inlet.
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  • Two new ACUASI aircraft

    ACUASI adds new drones for cargo trials

    October 14, 2025

    Two large-payload unmanned aircraft have joined the fleet of the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥' drone industry development program. They will be used to test cargo deliveries and emergency responses.
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  • A glacier winds down a mountainous valley into a lake.

    Mendenhall Glacier to pull toe from lake

    October 09, 2025

    In the near future, Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier will withdraw its icy toe from the lake of its making, scientists say.
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  • Jars of preserved meat, fish and vegetables on a counter with pressure-canning equipment

    Food preservation, healthy living classes offered in Anchorage

    October 09, 2025

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service and the Anchorage Museum's Seed Lab are offering five in-person food preservation and healthy living classes in Anchorage this month.
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  • A person in a hoodie works at a table outdoors, cutting a salmon.

    UAF receives $3.26 million grant for tribal heart health research

    October 09, 2025

    The National Institutes of Health has awarded the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ a $3.26 million grant for a new research project to address coronary heart disease among Yup'ik ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Native people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region.
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  • Mount Edgecumbe

    Scientists aim to map Mount Edgecumbe volcano's upper plumbing

    October 09, 2025

    Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ sits in a place where a volcano shouldn't really be sitting. Research underway with new federal funding aims to solve that mystery.
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  • A small, furry brown bat lies on a rock

    Biologist to discuss ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s bats in free webinar

    October 08, 2025

    An ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ wildlife biologist will lead a free lunch-and-learn webinar on bats in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ hosted by the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service. Arin Underwood, who works with the Threatened, Endangered and Diversity Program with the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Fish and Game, will discuss ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s tiny flying mammals.
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  • Sept. 25, 2025, Arctic sea ice extent

    ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ climate report: Sea ice growth and other winter transitions

    October 08, 2025

    Sea ice has returned to its annual growing season, though it's a slow turnaround as usual. The Arctic sea ice extent likely reached its 2025 seasonal minimum Sept. 10, at 1.85 million square miles.
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  • An Elder in a kuspuk sits at a table displaying beaded slippers and other goods, talking with three smiling people.

    UAF to host Indigenous Peoples Day events Oct. 13

    October 08, 2025

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with several events and activities on Monday, Oct. 13.
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  • Several jars of homemade jelly with colorful cloths decorating the lids

    Free workshop lays out ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s new homemade food rules

    October 06, 2025

    In 2024, the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Environmental Conservation made significant changes to its cottage food industry rules, which are now called the homemade food exemption. Sarah Lewis, a ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service health, home and family development agent, will explain the changes in a free in-person and online workshop.
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