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Army wants to find snow-loving soldiers as it commits to ‘Arctic dominance’
Soldiers participate in a skijoring exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in January. (Alejandro Pena/USAF) The Army says it will boost its ability to operate in the Arctic, in part by recruiting...
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The country’s biggest icebreaker will take trip through Northwest Passage...
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the ice Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, about 715 miles north of Utqiaġvik, Alaska, in the Arctic. (Public domain photo by NyxoLyno Cangemi/U.S. Coast Guard) Last year,...
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At federal forum, Alaskans weigh in on future of oil and gas
Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) Oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters is on pause. That includes a sale in...
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Bering Sea ice ‘resilient’ against winter storms this year, though extent is...
This satellite shot is from March 25th after a winter storm. The most prominent leads can be seen near St. Lawrence Island and in parts of the Norton Sound. (courtesy Alaska Center for Climate...
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Arctic research conference to highlight how rural Alaska communities approach...
The view from Point Hope early winter 2015. (Photo by Ellen Chenoweth/University of Alaska Fairbanks) Several Alaska energy researchers will be featured in a national conference this week of the U.S....
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Warming Pacific waters likely adding to Arctic sea ice loss, study finds
Sea ice floats in the Bering Strait off Cape Prince of Wales. (UAF photo by Gay Sheffield) For the past decade, scientists have observed several years of abnormally low sea ice extent. While most of...
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‘Zombie wildfires’ that can smolder underground all winter appear to be...
The Swan Lake Fire on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (Photo by Kale Casey/Alaska Division of Forestry) A recently published study examines the phenomenon of holdover or “Zombie wildfires” in Alaska and...
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US, Russian researchers track polar bears and ice seals across the Arctic
Polar bear image captured during aerial survey of the Chukchi Sea. (Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries) Sea ice in the Arctic serves as a habitat for polar bears and their prey, ice seals. The ice...
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Federal appeals court rules Trump administration was wrong to reverse...
A Pacific walrus bull (Public domain photo by Joel Garlich-Miller/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Trump administration was wrong to...
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What causes the northern lights? Scientists finally know for sure
Northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the sky over Reinfjorden in Reine, on Lofoten Islands, Arctic Circle, on September 8, 2017. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images) Nothing can ruin our...
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Pentagon ponders where to build new Ted Stevens Arctic Center. Alaska? Maybe.
An image of 2018 Arctic sea ice minimum extent, with red line representing the 30-year average. (NASA Scientific Visualization Studio) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week announced the...
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Thousands of lightning strikes spark more than a dozen wildfires in Northwest...
The Noatak River Fire is an estimated 11,000 acres and burning in the Noatak National Preserve about 120 miles northeast of Kotzebue. Smoke from it and the nearby Tutak Creek Fire are impacting...
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Coast Guard responds to tar-like substance spill on Utqiagvik beach
An Utqiagvik resident reported a tar-like substance spill on Tuesday morning near Simmons Field Beach. (Photo courtesy of North Slope Borough) Coast Guard officials are en route to a beach in Utqiagvik...
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Dinosaurs likely lived in Arctic year-round, according to recent Alaska...
Researchers dig for dinosaur bones on a bluff on the Colville River (Photo courtesy of UAF) The discovery of baby dinosaur bones on Alaska’s North Slope has paleontologists rethinking the animals’...
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LISTEN: Alaska bumblebees are master twerkers, thriving in an unfriendly climate
A bumblebee. (Creative commons photo by Miroslav Fikar) Some of Alaska’s most valuable pollinators are bumblebees and, it turns out, we have a lot of them. As bumblebees have declined in parts of the...
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Thunderstorms move across Chukchi and Beaufort seas
A map of lightning strikes in the Chukchi Sea on July 10,2021. (courtesy of Alaska Interagency Coordination Center) As our climate changes around us, the unusual is becoming more frequent — whether...
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Biden administration goes back to drawing board on oil leasing in Arctic Refuge
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service-Alaska) The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it will formally reconsider the decision allowing oil lease sales across the...
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Rain fell on the peak of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded...
A researcher looks at a canyon created by a meltwater stream on the glacial ice sheet in Greenland in 2013. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Greenland saw rain at the highest point of its ice sheet for the...
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Declining sea ice in Kotzebue Sound is shortening subsistence hunt for seals,...
A bearded seal sits on the ice edge in Kotzebue Sound. (Photo by Jessie Lindsay, NMFS MMPA Permit No. 19309.) Seal meat makes up a good portion of what’s in subsistence hunters’ freezers in Kotzebue....
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Border with Russia to open for Bering Strait Festival in 2022
The coast of the Seward Peninsula near the community of Wales. (Laura Kraegel/KNOM) Next year, Alaska’s international border with Russia will open for the Bering Strait Festival. The seven-day festival...
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