Climate change
Alaska Legislature gives Gov. Dunleavy sweeping powers to deal with coronavirus emergency
The legislation bans foreclosures and utility shutoffs and takes major action to alleviate the pandemic’s economic effects.
As Alaska permafrost melts, roads sink, bridges tilt and greenhouse gases escape
Alaska’s Arctic landscape is under assault from a warming climate, and it’s happening a lot faster than anticipated.
As Alaska warms, one village’s fight over oil development and the future
On the North Slope, a new oil boom is on the horizon even as climate change arrives and greenhouse gas emissions climb.
Fires, floods and free parking: California’s unending fight against climate change
Life in southern California, is being transformed as the climate grows hotter, drier and in some regions windier.
Climate change study targets problems in Alaska Native communities
The three-year, $700,000 study examined 187 communities, primarily in Western Alaska, that are on or near the coast or a river.
Witnessing climate change in Gambell
As I write, we have yet to see sea ice reach the Utqiagvik shores.
Failing permafrost cellars signal change in Alaska whaling towns
A growing number of Arctic underground cellars are being rendered unreliable as global warming and other modern factors force changes to an ancient way of life.
Alaska’s climate is changing fast. Garden accordingly.
Who would have imagined that you could still plant bulbs on the third weekend of November?
The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific
Rising temperatures are weakening the Earth’s single most dynamic sea ice factory, in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk. Its decline will reverberate far beyond the immediate region as climate dominoes begin to fall.
Why are birds and seals starving in a Bering Sea full of fish?
The tally includes a nearly fivefold increase in ice-seal carcasses spotted on shore, along with strandings of emaciated gray whales.