Face of Northern Alaska Pitted by Tundra Fire

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Nov 9, 2015   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Eight summers ago, a bolt of lightning struck a dry tundra hillside in northern Alaska. Fanned by a warm wind that curled over the Brooks Range, the Anaktuvuk River fire burned for three months, leaving a scar visible from the International Space Station. The charred area was larger than Cape Cod. While northern Alaska’s treeless […]