The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is offering free public family-friendly tours through Labor Day. Tours began on Memorial...

Three pairs of scientists began walking purposefully on one end of a curving Kruzof Island beach on a cloudy, cool and damp Monday, then stopped...

The first volcano scientists of an international team deposited on a Southeast Alaska island by helicopter Sunday quickly learned they had an...

The region has seen extreme high water levels related to more frequent storm flooding, causing increased erosion that has affected subsistence...

Evidence indicates a thick ice sheet, not annual sea ice and icebergs, covered the Arctic Ocean at some point during the last 140,000 years. Now...

Sensors that detect changes in atmospheric pressure due to ground shaking can also obtain data about large earthquakes and explosions that exceed...

Fifteen people from the Geophysical Institute attended the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America annual meeting in person in San...

Research by several University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists is being presented this week at the annual meeting of the...

Aurora watchers in Alaska were startled early Saturday morning when a huge spiral appeared in the sky. People quickly posted photos on social...