WHITE HOUSE — Multiple news agencies are reporting President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris Climate accord, in what would be a major reversal of Obama era policy that would please his Republican base but infuriate America’s allies. But Trump indicated Wednesday the decision is not final, issuing a […]
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — The foreign ministers of the eight Arctic Council nations will meet to discuss climate change this week, amid news last month that temperatures in the pristine region are warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. A high-level meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his counterparts from […]
The monetary impact of changes in snowfall due to climate change is likely in the trillions of dollars. Professor Matthew Sturm, with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, reported in a recent paper for the American Geophysical Union that the costs of snowfall changes are “measured in trillions, not billions, of dollars.” Sturm collaborated […]
The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last spring, its retreat triggered a geologic event at relatively breakneck speed. The toe of ice that was sending meltwater toward the Slims River and then north to the Bering Sea retreated so far that the […]