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10+ hour, 45+ min ago (115+ words) Satellite imagery Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Before-and-after satellite imagery shows locations and extent of the August 10, 2025 landslide. South Sawyer Glacier terminus positions since 1979 and the locations of three precursory slope failures since 2017 are also shown. The white line in panel B…...
Research provides timely views of warming's impact on Alaska glaciers
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (868+ words) Participants in a 2022 international glaciology summer school walk on Root Glacier near Mc Carthy, Alaska, in 2022. Nizina Glacier, shown here in summer 2022, is located 20 miles northeast of Mc Carthy, Alaska." Alaska's glaciers respond to climate change by melting for three…...
Seismic data can identify aircraft by type
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1028+ words) A small plane heading to the Talkeetna airport flies by the eastern side of Denali on the evening of March 9, 2024. UAF graduate student Cole Richards installs a high-sampling seismic sensor in February 2019. It is one 400 place along the Parks Highway…...
Drink up, the water is fine
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (216+ words) To the editor: In your Sunday, Sept 8, Community Perspective, Mindy O'Neall gave the reasons she is seeking the job of mayor of the City of Fairbanks. She listed myriad issues she believes need fixing, including the assertion that "our city…...
If a mountain fell in the wilderness. ..
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (910+ words) Image from video by Lt. Chip Baucom and Cmdr. PJ Johansen, U. S. Coast Guard A landslide in Southeast Alaska spilled into Tracy Arm and onto South Sawyer Glacier on Aug. 10. Dirt, rock and debris in the lower left part of the…...
One big earthquake, two Alaska ghost town mysteries
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (879+ words) A lone building remains at the townsite of Meehan, a gold rush mining community north of Fairbanks. Seismologist Carl Tape looks out at the site of the former Dome City at 10 p. m. on July 6 the 113th anniversary of a large earthquake in…...