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Bethel scientist returns home to study climate change
What happens after fire scorches the tundra, and what follows when carbon that’s been locked away for millennia gets released? Currently, a group of scientists is camping 50 miles north of Bethel are attempting to answer these questions. For one scientist the research is personal because it means coming home.
To solve gruesome desert mysteries, scientists become body collectors
People are dumping corpses in the high desert of western Colorado. But those unloading bodies aren’t criminal masterminds. They’re scientists. And out here, the usual rules of human decay don’t apply.
Competition seeks solutions for remote communities’ high energy costs
The prizes will come in the form of research and development time in the center’s Power Systems Integration Lab.
Research group finds toxin in Auke Rec butter clams
Researchers found about three-times the level of toxin accepted by the Food and Drug Administration.
Study: ‘weak’ correlation between warming, Southcentral lightning strikes
Researchers say more studies, and more data collected by the updated sensor network should help climatologists determine whether Alaska’s lightning season will be getting longer.