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The environmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature says the Arctic Council and its eight member nations need to do more to conserve the region’s…
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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…
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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…
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A case of “river piracy” accelerated by climate change …For years now, scientists have been documenting changes under way throughout the far north that…
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Climate change and the settlement of the New World …Long before climate change became politically-heated buzzwords, archeologists were using the term to…
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It’s been a chilly winter here in the Interior and elsewhere around the state. But for the Arctic Ocean, it’s been one long warm spell. That’s led to…
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It’s been a relatively cool and snowy winter here in the Interior, compared with the past couple of winters. But climate experts say the Arctic has been…
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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…
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An ever-shrinking Arctic polar ice cap …As the mercury plummeted to 40 below last weekend in Alaska’s Interior, temperatures around the North Pole…
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The 19th annual Alaska Forum on the Environment wraps up today after five days of presentations on environmental challenges confronting the state. Dozens…