Environmental changes from climate warming are hitting the Arctic harder and faster than anyone predicted. This week, top Arctic scientists have been meeting in Anchorage looking for better ways to investigate and even track the changes and what they could mean.
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Denali wolf numbers down this spring, survey says
Scientists observed 49 wolves in and around Denali National Park and Preserve in March. That’s down slightly from last fall, when 57 wolves were counted in the region.
Cleveland Volcano eruption continues
Cleveland Volcano continues to be active, with two additional blasts shaking the volcano on Sunday evening, and Monday morning.
NASA: Warming Climate Likely Means More Floods, Droughts
The Earth’s wettest regions are likely to get wetter while the most arid will get drier due to warming of the atmosphere caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, according to a new NASA analysis of more than a dozen climate models.
Huge Solar Plane Begins Slow Flight Across The U.S.
The Solar Impulse, a solar-powered airplane with the 208-foot wing-span, has begun a slow journey across the United States.
Tanner crab stock healthy
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration downgraded the southern tanner crab – or bairdi – in its annual report to Congress.
Video: NASA Details Space Telescope’s Cosmic Near Miss
A new video reveals just how close NASA came last year to losing its $500 million Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in a narrowly averted collision with a defunct, Cold War-era Soviet spy satellite.
Saturn Shows Off A Massive Spinning Vortex: ‘The Rose’
NASA is calling it “The Rose.” By any other name, it’s a mammoth storm on Saturn’s north pole. Its eye spans an estimated 1,250 miles — 20 times the size of an average hurricane’s eye on Earth.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Passes First Rocket Test
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo — designed to carry paying passengers beyond Earth’s atmosphere — passed a key test Monday, shooting past the speed of sound under its own rocket power.
Restrictions announced for ADFG sampling program
Alaska Department of Fish and Game sampling for sport-caught ling cod, rockfish, and king and coho salmon has been scheduled for various ports in Southeast Alaska.