Tag Archives: Alaska

Luke Hopkins (70) and Sam Schimmel (18) reflect on the paths that led them to serving together on the Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team. They discuss the importance of community-led initiatives and preventing cultural loss accelerated by climate change. This interview was recorded in collaboration with StoryCorps. Recorded by …

[ad_1] Global warming is increasing the risk of catastrophic glacier detachments, geologists have warned. Meltwater generated by warmer summers is posing a new threat “that we are only just beginning to understand”, according to researchers who investigated what unleashed a torrent of ice and rock that slid for seven miles through …

From the University of Alaska, Brian Brettschneider reports on crazy record high temperatures up north, the choking smog, and the prospects of wildfires from the Boreal forest right up into the Tundra. How did cold Alaska become the hot smoky place? That was summer 2019 with record-shattering heat, a pocket …

[ad_1] Releasing herds of animals into the Arctic could help tackle the climate crisis, researchers say. A computerised simulation of conditions at the polar region found that with enough wildlife, 80 per cent of the world’s permafrost soils could be saved, preventing a vicious circle of environmental catastrophe. Half of …

[ad_1] A few hours’ drive south of Anchorage, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is an Alaska in miniature. Larger than the state of Delaware, the refuge’s expanse includes snow-capped mountains, forests, lakes, vast wetland networks, and glacier-fed salmon streams that provide habitat to all of the state’s charismatic megafauna: grizzlies, …