Avainsana: Alaska
UAF Scientists Find New Indicators of Alaska Permafrost Thawing
More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent due to climate change, according…
Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes
In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska’s Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before…
Retreating Glacier Presents Landslide Threat, Tsunami Risk in Alaskan Fjord
The unstable terrain that poses a landslide threat lies between the Cascade Glacier and Barry Arm Glacier, which has been steadily retreating over the last…
Corps: Alaska mine would have adverse impacts on salmon site
A proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska would cause ”unavoidable adverse impacts,” the U.S….
Trump administration approves oil drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge
The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to…
Trump administration approves oil drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge
The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to…
Warmer water, rainfall tied to king salmon decline, study suggests
The peer-reviewed study, which was published in the scientific journal Global Change Biology, modeled the relationship of nine different indicators, including stream temperatures and precipitation…
Finnish site 
Global site