Test targets colorectal cancer in Alaska Natives
For Alaska’s indigenous people, colorectal cancer presents a double challenge. Alaska Natives have high rates of the disease, while those
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Food insecurity in Alaska
In the far north, where wild fish, game and plants are dietary staples and where store-bought foods are sometimes prohibitively expensive,
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Western Arctic Caribou Herd still Alaska’s biggest?
A caribou herd in northwestern Alaska has been the state’s largest for several years, but its population is on a
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Arctic Alaska permafrost thawing quickly
Even as he monitored signs of thaw under the ground of Interior Alaska, permafrost expert Vladimir Romanovsky was giving assurances a
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Warming evident in Arctic air and waters: report
The Arctic is warming at twice the global pace — and Arctic warming is affecting other parts of the world.
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Canadian homicide rates highest in North: report
Aboriginal residents made up nearly a quarter of Canada’s homicide victims in 2014 even though they make up only about
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Small grizzlies dominate bigger polar bears: study
North Slope grizzly bears may be little, but when it comes to grabbing morsels of bowhead whale scraps, they are mighty
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Alaska needs flexible offshore oil leasing says senator
Decisions by Royal Dutch Shell and by Statoil to pull out of the U.S. Arctic offshore show that the federal government
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Alaska to lose much of its shallow permafrost
Shallow permafrost lies beneath the surface of more than a third of mainland Alaska, but 16 percent to 24 percent
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Eroding Arctic Alaska river opens window to past
A river on Alaska’s North Slope is eroding along one of its sections faster than that of any river in
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Cleaner atmosphere means more Arctic ice melt: study
To protect human health and safeguard the environment, governments and utility companies around the world have worked — successfully —
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Ocean acidification strong off Alaska
The Arctic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean, along with Antarctic waters, are acidifying faster than the rest of the world’s
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Alaska’s Liberty field gets 3rd environmental review
For the third time since the late 1990s, federal regulators have embarked on an environmental review of an oil field
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2007 Arctic Alaska fire sparked permafrost thaw
The biggest wildfire to burn on treeless Arctic tundra triggered a dramatic permafrost thaw that unfolded over several years, new research
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Climate change leads snowshoe hares to Arctic Alaska
Though abundant over much of mainland Alaska, snowshoe hares were, until recently, absent from the state’s northernmost Arctic region. When did they
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