The Blob

Dan Bross

KUAC's Dan Bross asks Alaska Center For Climate Assessment and Policy climate specialist Rick Thoman about the ocean phenonmenon known as "The Blob", and…

Changing Arctic

‘To Be Expected’: Bering Sea Ice Extent Ebbs, Flows, According to Regional Winds, Warmth

Tim Ellis

The ebb and flow of Arctic sea ice …National Weather Service climate specialist Rick Thoman has talked a lot about sparse sea-ice formation in many areas…

Energy & Environment

‘Unrelenting Warmth’: 2016 Smashes 2014, ’15, Records as Alaska’s Warmest Year, Experts Say

Tim Ellis

Twenty-sixteen was the warmest year in Alaska since the National Weather Service began keeping records in the state more than a hundred years ago. Two…

Changing Arctic

Experts: Climate Change Intensifies Weird Winter Weather – and El Nino, 'The Blob'

Tim Ellis

The role of climate change in our weird winter weather …Temperatures climbed above freezing again this week throughout Alaska. It’s the latest of several…