In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

The Arctic landscape is changing too, said the NSIDC’s Twila Moon. The thawing of permafrost — a jumble of soil, rocks and sediment held together by ice — is pervasive, she said, releasing ...

The Arctic landscape’s natural ability to help to buffer human heat-trapping gasses is ending, adding to the urgency to reduce human emissions. Stark regional differences make planning difficult.

This could cause Arctic rivers to spread and grow, as well as adding new ones to the landscape, further speeding up the break-up of permafrost. And this shift in Arctic landscapes could have a ...

The Arctic landscape’s natural ability to help to buffer human heat-trapping gasses is ending, adding to the urgency to reduce human emissions. Stark regional differences make planning difficult.

In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

By Elizabeth Devitt It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures ischanging the Arctic landscape, threatening the survival of plants and animals adapted to ...

One of the biggest draws of staying in an Arctic lodge is seeing the Northern Lights. The clear skies and low light pollution ...

Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, ...

The Arctic landscape is changing too, said the NSIDC’s Twila Moon. The thawing of permafrost — a jumble of soil, rocks and sediment held together by ice — is pervasive, she said, releasing ...