5+ hour, 23+ min ago  (743+ words) The Aniak River outside Dan Gillikin's house is choked with chunks of ice during a slow breakup on May 10, 2026. From left, Steve Dykstra, Eli Gomez and Evan Joyce prepare to deploy instruments to collect data at the mouth of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (849+ words) When a wall of rock collapsed into Southeast Alaska's Tracy Arm last August, it triggered one of the highest-reaching tsunamis ever recorded in the world. The event happened to be in a place heavily visited by cruise ships. A study…...

3+ week, 2+ day 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ 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…...

6+ mon, 1+ 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…...

8+ 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…...

9+ mon, 2+ 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…...

10+ mon, 2+ 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…...