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 in Anchorage, the state's largest city. National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Clay said Anchorage's …
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and to contribute to knowledge of the storage, fluxes, and balance of carbon and methane gas in ecosystems of Alaska. The carbon and methane variables were examined for major terrestrial …
Graph from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association shows 2016 shows this year significantly hotter than ever the last few hot years.Graphic courtesy of NOAA After 12 consecutive months that broke heat records, there's a 99% chance that 2016 will be the hottest of the last 136 years, according …
A volcano on the Alaska Peninsula erupted with little advanced warning over the weekend, spewing an ash cloud up to 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) high that prompted aviation warnings across the region, scientists said on Monday. Mount Pavlof, one of the most active volcanoes on the peninsula, began erupting shortly …
New rules would ban ‘non-subsistence’ killing of bears, wolves and coyotes – some of the ‘most iconic yet persecuted species’– in the state’s 16 wildlife refuges A group of scientists has backed a federal plan to restrict the trapping and gunning down of bears and wolves in Alaska’s wildlife refuges, …
Pavlof Volcano, located on the Aleutian Islands, is one of the most active in the region. A volcano on a remote Alaskan island has "abruptly erupted" - sending plumes of ash more than 20,000ft into the air and triggering a flight warning. The Pavlof Volcano, located on the Aleutian Islands, …
A volcano in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands erupted on Sunday afternoon, sending ashes to 20,000 feet in the air. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports that the Pavlof Volcano, situated at about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska erupted at 4:18 pm on Sunday. The tremors were felt in the …
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Biologists have discovered a new species of butterfly occupying Alaska's interior -- the first in 28 years. Researchers believe the hardy species is a hybrid of two ancient species uniquely adapted for life on the Last Frontier. "Hybrid species demonstrate that animals evolved in a way that …
A federal government plan to protect a vast area of the US Arctic as habitat for polar bears has been upheld by an appeals court, overturning a previous victory by the state of Alaska and fossil fuel lobbyists against the designation. The US court of appeals for the ninth circuit …
The European Commission's Joint Research Center recently conducted a study that examined records of man-made carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the last 150 years, and confirmed that these emissions have led to global warming in the past century. Europe, North America, China, Siberia, Africa's Sahel zone and Alaska show …
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have solved a 50-year natural science mystery: the undersea source of tsunami that devastated a remote Alaska village following the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Underwater landslides at depths of up to 1,150 feet (350 meters)— much deeper than caused tsunami affecting …
The Canadian province of British Columbia signed a memorandum of understanding with Alaska on Wednesday to protect transboundary rivers, watersheds and fisheries and be more involved in major mining developments in each other's territory. Under the agreement, a bilateral group will be created to monitor water quality in transboundary waters. …
In recent years, polar bears have become the lovable poster children for climate change in the Arctic. And as their preferred sea ice habitat continues to diminish year after year, thanks to warming temperatures in the region, it seems there’s no end to the polar bear’s troubles. Now, a new …
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit near Alaska's Atka Island, part of the state's chain of Aleutian Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday. The USGS said the quake occurred about 58 miles (93 kilometers) southeast of Atka. Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-alaska-quake-idUSKCN0SY1YV20151109#LIbCwlS0SiKpyR5T.99
A federal judge has upheld a decision by the U.S. government to protect Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, blocking a proposed 10-mile (16-km) gravel road linking an Aleutian Islands fishing community to an all-weather airport for medical evacuations. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell first denied the road proposal in December …
US President Barack Obama viewed Alaska’s Exit Glacier, in a bid to drive home the impact climate change is already having on America. Obama visited the Kenai Fjords National Park in southern Alaska yesterday, where he stood against the backdrop of the vast, but receding, Exit Glacier. He pointed to …
President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour aimed at spotlighting how its melting permafrost and eroding coastlines show the United States is already being hurt by climate change. With 16 months left in office, Obama is trying to build support for tough new rules on …
In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with every storm. There is no space left to build homes for the living. The dead are now …
In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with every storm. There is no space left to build homes for the living. The dead are now …
The extreme loss of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is forcing thousands of walruses to crowd ashore on a remote barrier island off Alaska, and threatening their survival. Barack Obama will be the first US president to visit the Alaskan Arctic on 31 August on a three-day tour …
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – One of the state’s worst wildfire seasons in history has scorched 5 million acres of tundra and forests across Alaska, and experts here fear climate change will cause even more devastating fires through a combination of lower snowpack, drying tundra and melting permafrost. Like an insulating blanket, …
