Alaska’s glaciers respond to climate change by melting for three additional weeks with every 1 degree Celsius increase in the average summer temperature, data from satellite-mounted radars show. A single degree Celsius equates to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Work by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Alaska Fairbanks also shows that synthetic […]
Rising temperatures in a Southcentral Alaska river have led to a hungrier population of invasive northern pike, a trend that could imperil native salmon and other fish species. A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led research team analyzed the stomach contents of northern pike caught by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Deshka River […]
February provided a full Alaska winter weather experience: coastal blizzards, strong temperature swings, heavy snowfall and more deep cold in many locations. The Alaska Climate Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute published its February summary earlier this month. “February brought such a wide range of Alaska winter weather that nearly all Alaskans […]
Thirty below again this morning. OK then. Time to reach for the baseball bat and fine-tune the weather station. Just kidding. But it’s been quite a winter in the Golden Heart of Alaska. We’ve been at it long enough now that numbers are tumbling in from the meteorologists at the National Weather Service office […]