The researchers also hope to combine their studies' conclusions with historical records of sea ice by Alaska's Indigenous communities. "The decline in sea ice is directly affecting the coastal ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated chi ...

A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.

If sea ice and its denizens are to be protected ... a biologist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. As the habitat for Arctic wildlife shrinks, the animals that survive are likely to ...

With the state’s glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them ...

More than 37,000 citizen scientists have joined the Walrus From Space project, with the hopes of helping walruses ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Human-Wildlife Interactions Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2023 Sea-ice conditions predict polar bear la ...

An increase in large fires in the Western U.S. is being fueled by declines in Arctic Sea ice, and the impact of this decline on fires along the West Coast is as big as that of El Niño ...

In June 2023, a cable scoured by sea ice 34 miles offshore of the North Slope ... Paul said that this new project will complete a ring around Alaska, giving Quintillion the ability to simply ...

Rick Thoman, a climate researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks ... He also said the average extent of sea ice in the fall was the lowest on record, and that has led to increased ocean ...