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As the dark season settled in, a unique parade of light appeared in Interior Alaska
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
23 Nov 2025
Anchorage Daily News
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Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
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Interior wildfires burn across Parks Highway, prompt evacuations
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22 Jun 2025
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Event
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Healy, Denali Borough, Alaska, United States
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Interior Alaska, United States
21 Jun 2025
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Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
19 Jun 2025
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Fairbanks is under a Weather Service heat advisory. That's a first for Alaska.
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
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Wild Roses Blooming
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
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Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
2 May 2025
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‘Prepared to be adaptable’: Mushers leave Fairbanks to officially launch a historic 53rd Iditarod
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
3 Mar 2025
Anchorage Daily News
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Rain leads to hazardous road conditions across Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
24 Jan 2025
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Avalanche closes Parks Highway near Denali National Park
Denali National Park, Alaska, United States
24 Jan 2025
Alaska's News Source
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Self-sustaining soil cavity hole
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
26 Dec 2024
LEO Network
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Snowfall causes significant power outages, most are now restored
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
12 Dec 2024
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Sandhill crane straggler spotted at Creamer's Field
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
14 Nov 2024
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Fish and Game searching for wolf that bit 2 people on Dalton Highway
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
23 Aug 2024
Alaska Public Media
Event
Tree Rotten or Infested?
College, Alaska, United States
18 Aug 2024
LEO Network
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Snake-like procession of insect larvae spotted again in Interior Alaska
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
17 Jul 2024
Alaska Public Media
Event
Tustumena Lake fire reported 25% contained
Tustumena Lake, Alaska, United States
2 Jul 2024
Homer News
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Denali National Park bars visitors as wildfire burns near entrance
Denali National Park, Alaska, United States
1 Jul 2024
Alaska Public Media
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Wildfire near Elliot Highway prompts 'Go' evacuation order
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
27 Jun 2024
Alaska Public Media
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Late to see moose along Richardson Highway
North Pole, Alaska, United States
21 Apr 2024
LEO Network
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Huge Numbers of Redpolls
Fox, Alaska, United States
13 Feb 2024
LEO Network
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Invasive Elodea in Piledriver Slough
Moose Creek, Alaska, United States
26 Oct 2023
LEO Network
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Invasive Elodea in 28 Mile Pit
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, United States
26 Oct 2023
LEO Network
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Invasive Elodea in Chena Slough
North Pole, Alaska, United States
26 Oct 2023
LEO Network
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Later frosts could make new crops possible in Alaska, but climate change brings challenges, too
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
25 Oct 2023
KTOO
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Very Late Foliage
Fox, Alaska, United States
19 Sep 2023
LEO Network
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Ice jam floods continue to plague Alaska river communities
Alaska, United States
19 May 2023
Alaska Public Media
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Alaska's newest lakes are belching methane
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
22 Sep 2022
Phys.org
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Hunters seeing lower quotas for Fortymile, Nelchina caribou herds
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
3 Aug 2022
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Thousands of lightning strikes and another 13 fires recorded as Alaska's intense fire season continues
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
6 Jul 2022
Alaska Public Media
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Mosquitoes are unusually dense and vicious all of a sudden
Ester, Alaska, United States
14 Jun 2022
LEO Network
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Flooding in Manley Hot Springs recedes, but residents remain displaced and without power
Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, United States
8 May 2022
Anchorage Daily News
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Heavy snowpack in several Alaska river basins raises concerns of possible spring flooding
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
22 Mar 2022
Alaska Public Media
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Fairbanks is riding a weather roller coaster, from freezing rain to snow and frigid cold
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
29 Dec 2021
Alaska Public Media
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Bees emerging in Fairbanks
College, Alaska, United States
16 Apr 2021
LEO Network
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Fairbanks Borough schools closed Monday as region digs out from storm
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
4 Apr 2021
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Fairbanks sets snowfall record, braces for second winter storm
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
7 Nov 2020
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Scientists suspect "Alaskapox" rash could be spread from small animals
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
4 Oct 2020
Alaska Public Media
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Late-blooming Rose (
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) in Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
3 Oct 2020
LEO Network
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Lots of Late Blooming Roses (
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Ester, Alaska, United States
1 Oct 2020
LEO Network
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Why are spruce trees turning orange in the Alaska Range?
Healy, Alaska, United States
5 Sep 2020
Anchorage Daily News
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Fairbanks North Star Borough sees rainiest 12-month period on record
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
8 Aug 2020
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Early Ripe Blueberries
Moose Mountain, Fairbanks, AK
13 Jul 2020
LEO Network
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Multi-headed Fireweed (
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)
Ester, Alaska, United States
10 Jul 2020
LEO Network
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Extremely Wet June
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
30 Jun 2020
LEO Network
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Wasp Gall on Rosebush
Denali National Park, Alaska, United States
28 Jun 2020
LEO Network
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Blueberries in June
Manley hotspring road
27 Jun 2020
LEO Network
Event
‘Zombie fires’ are erupting in Siberia and Alaska, signaling a severe northern wildfire season may lie ahead
Alaska, United States
28 May 2020
Anchorage Daily News
Event
Birch pollen count breaks 'world record' in Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
18 May 2020
Alaska Public Media
Event
Minor flooding reported on Chena, Salcha rivers
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
12 May 2020
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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After long, cold winter, Interior summer heat begins with near-record temperatures, flooding
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
12 May 2020
Alaska Public Media
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Decrease in Mosquitoes
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
1 May 2020
LEO Network
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Flood potential for spring breakup expected to be above normal for much of Alaska
Alaska, United States
5 Apr 2020
KTUU
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Minus 65: Interior Alaska sees coldest official temperatures since 2012
Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, United States
27 Dec 2019
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Late Bloomers - Highbush Cranberry (
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) Blooming Late August
College, Alaska, United States
24 Aug 2019
LEO Network
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Honeybees are dying; beekeepers suspect pesticides are to blame
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
29 Jul 2019
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Air quality plummets as wildfire smoke hits Alaska's most populous cities
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
9 Jul 2019
Reuters
Event
Residents near Shovel Creek fire asked to prepare for possible evacuation
24 Jun 2019
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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An unstoppable force: The Pretty Rocks Landslide
Cantwell, Alaska, United States
30 May 2019
YouTube
Event
Disappearance of Tundra Ponds
McKinley Park, Alaska, United States
9 May 2019
LEO Network
Event
Nenana Ice Classic tripod falls; earliest date on record
Nenana, Alaska, United States
15 Apr 2019
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Event
Early Robin (
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) Sighting in Fairbanks
College, Alaska, United States
10 Apr 2019
LEO Network
Event
Record Temps in Goldstream
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
2 Apr 2019
LEO Network
Event
Warmest March
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, United States
31 Mar 2019
LEO Network
Event
103rd Ice Classic: warm weather, thin ice are hot topics in Nenana
Nenana, Alaska, United States
5 Mar 2019
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Event
Large Number of Redpolls (
Acanthis
)
Fox, Alaska, United States
27 Jan 2019
LEO Network
Event
Invasion of redpolls sends seeds flying
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
26 Jan 2019
Anchorage Daily News
Event
Fairbanks snowpack thin in least-snowy year since 1926
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
9 Nov 2018
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Event
Coyote (
Canis latrans
) Sighting
Fox, Alaska, United States
22 Oct 2018
LEO Network
Event
Possible green Halloween on the horizon in Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
22 Oct 2018
Alaska Public Media
Event
Warm early winter topples century-old records
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
18 Oct 2018
Alaska Public Media
Event
For methane researcher, golf course bubbles are a first
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
18 Sep 2018
Alaska Public Media
Event
Prickly Rose (
Rosa acicularis
) in Bloom WAY Out of Season
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
10 Sep 2018
LEO Network
Event
Late Blooming Rose (
Rosa acicularis
) Documented in Newspaper
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
29 Aug 2018
LEO Network
Event
Rare Wood Frog (
Lithobates sylvaticus
) Sighting
Ester, Alaska, United States
18 Aug 2018
LEO Network
Event
Peregrine Falcon (
Falco peregrinus
) in January!!?
Nenana, Alaska, United States
6 Jan 2018
LEO Network
Event
Suspected stolen vehicle falls through thin ice on Chena Lake
Chena Lakes, Alaska, United States
20 Dec 2017
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Event
Unusual Bird Sighting, Northern Shrike (
Lanius excubitor
)
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
12 Nov 2017
LEO Network
Event
Late Bloomer-Wild Rose
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
16 Oct 2017
LEO Network
Event
Late Bloomer - Wild Rose Enjoying the Fall
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
9 Sep 2017
LEO Network
Event
Tularemia reported around Fairbanks, Palmer; vets urge quick diagnosis, treatment for pets
Interior - Southcentral, Alaska, United States
14 Aug 2017
Alaska Public Media
Event
Thousands lose power as windstorm roars through Interior Alaska
Nenana, Alaska, United States
25 Jul 2017
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Event
First Ripe Blueberries (
Vaccinium ovalifolium
), South side of Wickersham Dome
White Mountains National Recreation Area, Alaska, United States
19 Jul 2017
LEO Network
Event
Mule Deer Found Dead Raises Questions
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
1 Jun 2017
Alaska Fish and Wildlife News
Event
State checks dead mule deer near North Pole for dreaded parasite
North Pole, Alaska, United States
19 May 2017
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Event
Sinkhole pops up at Ft. Wainwright
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
17 May 2017
Alaska Public Media
Event
Lots of Wood Frogs (
Lithobates sylvaticus
)
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
3 May 2017
LEO Network
Event
Climate Change drives early laying/hatching, but not only Temperature!
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
27 Apr 2017
The Earth Times
Event
Slow Fairbanks snowmelt slows Canada Geese migration
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
18 Apr 2017
Alaska Public Media
Event
Here’s the dirt on the melting permafrost in Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
23 Mar 2017
Arctic Deeply
Event
Exotic ticks found on Alaska dogs, Alaskans
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
25 Sep 2016
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Event
Ruffed Grouse
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
25 Sep 2016
LEO Network
Event
Moose (
Alces alces
) Eating Rose Hips (
Rosa aciculariso
or
R. nutkana
)
Ester, Alaska, United States
10 Sep 2016
LEO Network
Event
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