An update on fishhook chickadee beaks

An update on fishhook chickadee beaks

Over 26 years ago, my friend Ned Rozell wrote about a startling new deformity seen in Alaska’s black-capped chickadees: “In 1991, a man living in King Salmon noticed three black-capped chickadees with beaks curved like fishhooks,” Rozell wrote. “Since then, hundreds of people from Southcentral Alaska have seen chickadees with overlong beaks that make it […]

Indigenous observations make Arctic Ocean models more accurate

Indigenous observations make Arctic Ocean models more accurate

Working with Indigenous observers on Alaska’s northern coast, a research team has developed a way to improve the modeling of oceanic changes.  This work was led by the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the findings were published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment.  Claudine Hauri, a research […]

Arctic Report Card 2026 finds critical support from AGU

Arctic Report Card 2026 finds critical support from AGU

The highly anticipated yearly assessment will continue under its independent editorial team, with new support from AGU WASHINGTON — The Arctic Report Card, the annual peer-reviewed assessment of the state of the warming Arctic, will continue under its independent editorial team —  led by researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder […]

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