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The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly approved a resolution Thursday that established a task force that will put together a plan to deal with the…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough does not have a plan to respond to climate change, like the one under consideration by the Anchorage Assembly, which aims…

Unseasonably warm and wet weather last month laid down a coating of hard-to-remove all around the Interior. That’s kept the crews that remove snow and ice…

Overnight low temperatures have dropped down to freezing in some spots around the Interior over the past week, including Denali Park to the south and…

National Weather Service climate expert Rick Thoman says there’s a good chance that all of Alaska will be warmer than normal in August and the next couple…

A new study of lightning in Alaska …Lightning sparked about a quarter of the 218 wildfires reported in Alaska as of Monday. But those fires account for 97…

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…

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…