The giant mountain of ice towers is threatening a tiny village, causing authorities to evacuate residents.
Arctic
Beavers are moving into the Arctic — you can see it from space
“If they were moving out of the Arctic, then you’d see a lot of ponds draining… But that’s not what we saw, we saw a lot of new ponds forming.”
‘There really isn’t anything held back’ — A whaling festival in Nuiqsut
In fall, Nuiqsut’s whaling crews travel roughly 80 miles by boat to the village’s camp at Cross Island, north of Prudhoe Bay. From there, last year, Nuiqsut’s crews harvested four bowhead whales. The Ipalook crew took one of them.
Study examines risk to marine mammals from increased Arctic traffic
“We could aim to develop some mitigation strategies that would help ships avoid key habitats, adjust their timing, take into account certain migration routes and times,” Donna Hauser said. “As well as make some efforts to minimize sound disturbance by changing vessel speeds.”
At the top of the world, an international field school for research students
Earlier this month, the University of Alaska Fairbanks participated in an international field school in Utqiaġvik, giving early-career researchers a broad view of the Arctic coastal system and how it’s changing, along with some different methods for studying it.
Reporter returns to Utqiaġvik, finds 24/7 sun and pronunciation variations
Ravenna Koeniq of Alaska’s Energy Desk shares her impressions of spending time in the North Slope community, and what has happened since residents changed the name from Barrow to Utqiaġvik over a year ago.
Alaska’s northernmost town still in transition 1 1/2 years after official name change
“Barrow” is everywhere while walking around town: on the fire trucks, in the name of the high school, the local utility company, on the North Slope Borough’s official logo. But the name “Utqiaġvik” is showing up, as well. It’s on City Hall and on municipal department letterhead.
New Anchorage museum exhibit hopes to shed light on pingoes
The sculpture’s scale is impressive. The mound is 42 feet tall and almost as wide. It’s light brown and formed with different-sized panels made of salvaged Alaskan yellow cedar. They’re curved and splattered with small holes.
As the Arctic warms, a changing landscape on the Chukchi Sea
“These ridges that we’re standing on, there would have been more of them, and they would have been bigger,” ice researcher Andy Mahoney says. “The features that we now see, they’re something of a shadow from the past.”
Utqiaġvik weighs in on the proposed gas and oil lease plan for ANWR
In a departure from the meetings in Fairbanks and Anchorage, the primary focus of the meeting in Utqiaġvik was the details that should be considered as development moves forward, rather than whether or not it should happen.