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

A University of Alaska Fairbanks coastal organization has received a $590,000 philanthropic grant to map rapidly changing watersheds of the...

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...

A small piece of Pacific Ocean floor, brought up 10 years ago by a Chinese research vessel from a depth of 16,500 feet and 2,700 miles from the...

A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher is among the scientists who have revealed the metamorphic history of a high-grade graphite deposit on...