University of Alaska Fairbanks News

While most Americans shop for holiday gifts and break out festive decorations, a team of 18 researchers will spend their holiday season at sea, using underwater robots to explore the extreme habitats of life under the sea crust.

"The ice has formed up to resemble more what a real waterfall would be; it's more vertical this year," Sam Braband, outdoor facilities manager for UAF's Department of Recreation, Adventure and Wellness, said earlier this week.

It wasn't the classic cat-in-the-tree rescue call, but University of Alaska Fairbanks firefighters did save a dog stranded on the Chena River ice on Wednesday afternoon.

As we sat in my car outside a silent movie theater in Los Angeles, my friend anxiously opened a plastic bag containing a white T-shirt she'd slept in for the past three nights.

Matthew Christian was appointed to the Fairbanks District Court. Christian has served as magistrate and master in Kenai since 2007.

U.S. sailors clear ice from the hatch of the USS Connecticut submarine after it surfaced in the Arctic Ocean, March 19, 2011.

An anonymous reader writes "New research suggests that the amount of methane being released from Siberian permafrost is much larger than previously thought.

In this photo provided by the University of Alaska, from left, researcher Bill Schneider of the University of Alaska Fairbanks oral history program, records a conversation with Charlie Campbell, Ronnie Evans and Knut Kielland as they talk about a potentiality dangerous section of ice in the Tanana River.

Bezek Durst Seiser is proud to announce recognition by the American Institute of Architects Alaska Chapter, for the design of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Murie Building and the Design of Access Alaska's Anchorage Office in the 2013 Design Awards for Excellence in Architecture.

Ounce for ounce, methane has an effect on global warming more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and it's leaking from the Arctic Ocean at an alarming rate, according to new research by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks .

A professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is demanding an independent investigation about two complaints she filed alleging sexual harassment by the school's student newspaper.

Laura Prugh knew she shouldn't bother trying to trap kangaroo rats in the California desert on nights when the moon was shining.

A fraternity is hosting a "Mr. UAF" beauty pageant for men next month at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The East Siberian Arctic Shelf is venting at least 17 teragrams of the methane into the atmosphere each year.

But Sitka Fire Chief Dave Miller said not to take the map as the final word on how high the water might rise in a tsunami.

The Arctic methane time bomb is bigger than scientists once thought and primed to blow, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Laura Prugh knew she shouldn't bother trying to trap kangaroo rats in the California desert on nights when the moon was shining.

Local high school and college students, training groups and others helped trail groomers at Birch Hill Recreation Area.

According to a biography provided in a release from the governor's office, Christian has previously worked in Fairbanks as an assistant district attorney.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will commemorate the date with a public event at Rasmuson Library.