Alaska sees record temperatures in heatwave
An "all-time high" temperature record has been set in the US state of Alaska, despite much of the country sitting in the Arctic circle. Temperatures peaked at 32.22 Celsius (90F) on 4 July at an airport
Alaska
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An Alaskan village votes to relocate because of global warming
The rapid rise in sea level and global warming has forced the residents of a tiny native American village to abandon their ancestral home and move to the mainland. Locals of Shishmaref village held
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Alaskan village threatened by rising sea levels votes for costly relocation
Shishmaref residents decided to leave island rather than add more defenses against coastal erosion but community may not be able to afford $180m move The residents of a small coastal Alaskan village
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Alaskan village votes on whether to relocate because of climate change
The residents of an Alaskan coastal village have begun voting on whether to relocate because of rising sea levels. If they vote to move, the village of Shishmaref, just north of the Bering Strait, and
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Long-studied Alaskan wolf pack may be dead after years of aggressive hunting
The world’s longest-studied wolf pack may have been wiped out, wildlife officials fear amid an escalating battle between federal and state authorities in Alaska over the aggressive hunting of predators
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Last woolly mammoths 'died of thirst'
The mammoths on St Paul Island outlived their mainland cousins by thousands of years One of the last known groups of woolly mammoths died out because of a lack of drinking water, scientists believe.
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Mysterious New Whale Species Discovered in Alaska
Scientists say a dead whale on a desolate beach and a skeleton hanging in a high school gym are a new species. Yet experts have never seen one alive. The remains floated ashore in June of 2014, in
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North American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for- study
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study said
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Study Revealed Both Humans and Climate Change Killed Off Ice Age Giants, But How?
Patagonia in South America was once the home of Ice Age giants, like huge sloths, bears and saber-toothed cats. Suddenly, they all died at exactly the same time--around 12,300 years ago. A new study published
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Arctic getting greener due to climate change: NASA
Washington, June 6 (IANS) Using 29 years of data from satellite imageries, NASA scientists have found extensive greening in the Arctic region, thanks to rising temperatures. The northern reaches of North
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Spike in Alaska wildfires is worsening global warming, US says
The devastating rise in Alaska’s wildfires is making global warming even worse than scientists expected, US government researchers said on Wednesday. The sharp spike in Alaska’s wildfires, where more