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Northern Snowshoe Hares Eat Lots of Dirt

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 10, 2018 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

The evidence is in: Snowshoe hares near Wiseman eat lots of dirt. “I have thousands and thousands of photos of hares eating soil in this one little spot,” said Donna DiFolco, a biologist and cartographer with the National Park Service. DiFolco has studied hares in the eastern portion of Gates of the Arctic National Park […]

New Studies Raise Questions About Crabs Adaptability

By AFSC News/NOAA on Mar 2, 2016 At Sea, Featured, Science/Education

Sixty percent of U.S. seafood comes from Alaska. A profitable portion of this comes from the famed crab fisheries. New studies on the effects of ocean acidification due to climate change support a growing body of evidence that the future for Tanner and blue king crab stocks in Alaska waters is, at best, uncertain. “A […]