Changing Arctic

Seeking solutions to villages’ high energy costs …The Alaska Center for Energy and Power is reaching out to inventors and entrepreneurs to help find ways…

A portent of a wetter – or drier – Arctic …Because they’re skeptics, scientists know to tread carefully when they come across stories that begin with the…

Finland pledges Arctic cooperation … President Trump announced Thursday he’ll begin withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Accord adopted by…

Concerns over an Arctic “brain drain” ...Ask any of the 11 local leaders from around the far north who participated in the recent Arctic Mayors Roundtable…

A first-of-its kind pan-Arctic meeting of local leaders …While top diplomats from eight circumpolar nations gathered in Fairbanks last week for…

Warming increases fire danger in the far north …A year ago, more than a thousand Canadian firefighters were struggling with a monster of a wildfire that…

The downstream impacts of last year’s “river piracy” …Many in the scientific community are still buzzing over the so-called “river piracy” event that…

A case of “river piracy” accelerated by climate change …For years now, scientists have been documenting changes under way throughout the far north that…

A big broadband leap forward in northern Alaska …The Anchorage-based company that’s been laying fiber-optic cable on- and offshore around northern Alaska…

An Arctic pathway for indigenous peoples ancestors …A new study suggests archeologists should take another look at an inland route humans may have taken…