Science & Tech

Dartmouth College research places economic value on timber through wood prices, carbon, and albedo from winter snow

In another sign of how climate change is transforming the Arctic, a Toronto-based company is planning to lay a fiber-optic cable through Canada’s Northwest Passage.

Research indicates that declining snowfall is contributing to desiccation of Yukon and Manitoba shallow lakes

Researchers suggest increased rainfall, temperatures could affect juvenile development, adult migration

Jennifer Moss is a Google Glass Explorer and she’s testing the technology for use in research and education in Alaska.

Most of ISON, a comet formed at the birth of the solar system, apparently did not survive Thursday’s encounter with the sun, NASA said. Scientists detected the comet last year and had hoped to continue studying it for information to be mined from its “primordial ices.”