Bering Sea ice at lowest extent in at least 5,500 years, study says
There is less sea ice in the Bering Sea now than at any time in at least 5,500 years. That’s
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Appointment of U.S. Arctic coordinator signals more muscular American policy
The appointment of James DeHart as the U.S. coordinator for the Arctic signals the region’s growing importance to Washington as an arena of geopolitical competition with Russia
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How sub-Arctic seas are influencing the Arctic Ocean and what it’s telling us about climate change
The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are driving changes in Arctic waters in more complex ways than previously recorded and are
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Move over mushers and planes, drones to deliver emergency supplies in Alaska
A team of unmanned aerial vehicle experts led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks is working on delivering emergency medical
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Alaska researchers test ancient bison horns in northwestern Canada for climate change study
Researchers from Alaska are testing hundreds of ancient bison horns in Whitehorse, Yukon. They are trying to find out how
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Alaska: More than 40,000 earthquakes detected in 2014
The Earthquake Information Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks logged more earthquakes in 2014 than in past years, a
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University, U.S. State Department announce Arctic Fulbright program
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is teaming with Dartmouth College in an effort to focus national attention on the Arctic
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Wildfires could threaten Arctic caribou herd’s winter habitat: study
Caribou in northern Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory will lose winter habitat if the region’s long-term pattern of increased wildfires
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The importance of Alaska’s Arctic lakes
The tens of thousands of lakes that dot the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope are so similar that almost all
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Long-term warming inside Greenland’s ice sheet
In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis
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Arctic plants to be studied in Nunavut
A team of botanists is headed next week to a remote area in the Canadian territory of Nunavut to try
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Tackling ‘frost boils’ on Alaska’s Arctic Highway
A few miles from the Arctic Circle, on the United States’ only Arctic highway, there’s a sloped area notorious for
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