The remote town of Barrow, Alaska, home to more than 4,000 people, touts picturesque views of the Arctic Ocean as well as an unparalleled connection to the Alaskan wild, but underneath its stunning beauty lies a major global ...
Environment
Feb 5, 2019
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Large carnivore management in Alaska should be based on rigorous science and monitoring of the status and trends of carnivore populations, according to a Perspective article published January 15 in the open-access journal ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2019
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The Allen Marine tour boat pushed off the dock at the Sitka Crescent Harbor on a clear crisp October afternoon with University of Alaska Southeast researchers, alumni and supporters of the university in search of humpback ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2018
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A new climate dataset representing historic and future conditions in Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories is now available on Amazon's Public Dataset Program.
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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Seventy percent of the current infrastructure in the Arctic has a high potential to be affected by thawing permafrost in the next 30 years. Even meeting the climate change targets of the Paris Agreement will not substantially ...
Environment
Dec 11, 2018
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An active Alaska volcano is ramping up, spewing ash emissions nearly 3 miles (5 kilometers) into the air.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, climate change isn't a distant or abstract concern.
Environment
Oct 22, 2018
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The Beaufort Gyre is an enormous, 600-mile-wide pool of swirling cold, fresh water in the Arctic Ocean, just north of Alaska and Canada. In the winter, this current is covered by a thick cap of ice. Each summer, as the ice ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2018
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A lava flow has been spotted on an Alaska volcano that recently became active again.
Environment
Sep 11, 2018
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The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska. It ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2018
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