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How do crabs, spiders and slugs breathe?

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How do crabs, spiders and slugs breathe?

It’s not how you think.

Beaver Builders at the Mendenhall Minis series Jan. 11

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Beaver Builders at the Mendenhall Minis series Jan. 11

Open and free to the public.

Alaska blackfish in a world of its own

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Alaska blackfish in a world of its own

Meet an evolutionary loner.

The Alaska State Fish Art competition will be held with entries due by March 31, 2020. (Courtesy Photo | Forest Service)

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Forest Service fishing for student art of fish in Alaska

How good are your fish drawing skills?

Column: What’s the dollar value of wild salmon produced by the Tongass and the Chugach?

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Column: What’s the dollar value of wild salmon produced by the Tongass and the Chugach?

Who says money doesn’t grow on trees?

West Coast fishery rebounds in rare conservation ‘home run’

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West Coast fishery rebounds in rare conservation ‘home run’

Rock bottom no more.

Another decade down

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Another decade down

Here’s to the next 10.

Take a deep breath: How animals, like big blue whales and lungless salamanders, breathe

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Take a deep breath: How animals, like big blue whales and lungless salamanders, breathe

Inhale, exhale (or not).

The demise of Scotch Cap lighthouse

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The demise of Scotch Cap lighthouse

“A severe earthquake was felt.”

Winter may be here

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Winter may be here

… it’s about time.

A tree swallow flies from a nesting box after feeding chicks at the Juneau Community Gardens in 2016. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Tree swallow box project seeks to understand the vanishing population

The tree swallows migrate to Alaska to hatch their young.

Who’s calling who? Lessons from a failed waterfowl hunt.

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Who’s calling who? Lessons from a failed waterfowl hunt.

Without illogical enthusiasm, we might not learn new things.

Waterfowl hunting season to close next week

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Waterfowl hunting season to close next week

The season will go later next year.

Famous shooters of noxious spray

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Famous shooters of noxious spray

What do skunks, beetles and octopuses all have in common?

Sustainable Alaska: Saving Energy at UAS

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Sustainable Alaska: Saving Energy at UAS

How the campus saves energy (and money).

Redoubt’s big impact 30 years ago

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Redoubt’s big impact 30 years ago

The eruption that nearly brought down a passenger jet.

Bear with them, they’re learning

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Bear with them, they’re learning

Lecture examines behavior of not-quite adult bears

The story of five spawning salmon

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The story of five spawning salmon

It’s tough sledding for Dredge Lakes salmon.

A little brown bat. (Courtesy Photo | Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

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Dogs make the best bat-scent detectors, helping local researchers

The excellent noses of dogs are put to work in bat research.

Deer taken on Douglas was third lowest last year in 22 years. What’s going on?

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Deer taken on Douglas was third lowest last year in 22 years. What’s going on?

Multiple answers are being proposed.