University of Alaska Fairbanks geophysicists Anthony Arendt and Regine Hock joined 14 scientists from 10 countries painting a global picture of glacial losses and rising sea levels.
Alaska North Slope residents and scientists both say the effects of climate change on sea ice are inescapable. Over the past two decades, shore-fast ice has become thinner and more mobile.Molly Rettig
Bacteria that can live and multiply in high Arctic permafrost at temperatures well below freezing have been discovered by a Canadian-led team of researchers.Emily Chung, CBC News
The ice has finally gone out, and birds are returning, along with Audubon Society volunteers who will move an island out onto Connors Lake, where Pacific loons will breed and rear new babies.Alaska Dispatch
When you have to move the whole family around, it is a lot easier to travel by boat, it turns out. Unless, of course, you have to deal with the vast mudflats of Turnagain Arm, Chickaloon Bay and Cook Inlet.
Nearly a week after Mount Pavlof awoke, the 8,261-foot volcano on the Alaska Peninsula is still spewing ash up to 20,000 feet. Here's what it looks like.Alaska Dispatch
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers were in Barrow, testing the shore-fast ice along Alaska's North Slope, which has been getting thinner, breaking up earlier, and freezing later in the year.Molly Rettig
With cyclists hammering through snow-showers on Bike to Work Day and greening lawns now blanketed in slushy white, it should come as no surprise that the longtime cooling spell that put the chill on global warming in Alaska shows no signs of letting up.Alex DeMarban
