Loss of snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab harvests pose immediate hardships and raise worries about future seafood prospects.
Climate Change
This year’s Arctic Report Card highlights Indigenous perspectives, but is it enough?
NOAA’s latest report card has something new: a chapter on the consequences of climate change for people who live in the Arctic.
Alaska wildfire researchers grapple with changing climate’s effects on predictability
Last spring, a winter’s worth of snow melted off ahead of schedule in Southwest Alaska, leading to earlier-than-usual fires in a place that’s not so fire-prone to begin with.
Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening drinking water
One researcher described streams that have become “so acidic that they curdle your powdered milk.”
Arctic Report Card 2022: Rapid climate change brings extreme events to the North
The report card authors say the last seven years are collectively the warmest seven years since the start of the last century.
Alaska routinely doesn’t budget enough for wildfire response, study finds
The state routinely underfunds wildfire costs up front, only to pay them off later.
2022 is Juneau’s wettest year on record
With three weeks left in the year, 2022 could surpass the 1991 record by several inches.
Utqiagvik reaches record-high 40 degrees in December
It’s the highest temperature recorded in Utqiagvik between Oct. 30 and April 22 in more than a century of monitoring.
State downsizes bison hunt after a third of Delta Junction herd starves to death
The Delta Junction bison hunt usually extends from October to March, but the state limited this year’s season to just two weeks.
Ketchikan climate activist named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list
Kiera O-Brien said her childhood in Ketchikan led her to where she is today: working for a green energy developer as a public policy representative.