The Juneau Icefield is home to the Mendenhall and more than a thousand other glaciers. Ice there has melted especially fast over the last decade — twice as quickly as it did before 2010.
Climate Change
Climate change is muddying the future of trail maintenance in Southeast Alaska
Trail crews face a growing intensity of the mud, the erosion and the wash-outs that are wreaking havoc on trails as human-caused climate change makes rainstorms more extreme.
An influx of chum salmon in the Canadian Arctic could be the same fish missing from Western Alaska
In recent years, all five salmon species have shown up in rivers from northeast Alaska to Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic.
As Alaska’s boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond
The boreal is warming more rapidly than anywhere on Earth, seeing more intense wildfires, invasive beetles and changing rainfall patterns that’ve caused some parts to shift to grasslands.
Environmental groups ask feds to reconsider the trans-Alaska pipeline and plan for its removal
The pipeline has transported 18 billion barrels of North Slope crude since 1977.
8 young Alaskans reignite a court fight over climate change and fossil fuel development
The case, Sagoonick v. State II, argues that the Alaska constitution includes a right to a livable climate.