The Russian invasion of Ukraine is biasing predictions of how the Arctic will respond to climate change, according to a team of international scientists, including one from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Their study, published Monday, January 22 in Nature Climate Change, compared the ability of Earth systems models to estimate the effects of climate change […]
“How many more records does it take before we phase out fossil fuels and deal with it?” asked one climate campaigner. European scientists officially confirmed Tuesday that 2023 was the hottest year on record, surpassing 2016 by a huge margin as greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels continue to drive global temperatures to terrifying new highs. The conclusion […]
WASHINGTON — Last month, Native Alaskans on Little Diomede Island awoke to see their city office collapsing into the community school next door. For the Ingalikmiut people [Inupiat] in the Bering Strait, halfway between Siberia and the Alaska mainland, this was the latest crushing evidence of the impact of climate change in the Arctic. “Looking at […]
New chapters in 2023 Arctic Report Card show the promise of Indigenous knowledge to strengthen resilience NOAA’s 2023 Arctic Report Card documents new records showing that human-caused warming of the air, ocean and land is affecting people, ecosystems and communities across the Arctic region, which is heating up faster than any other part of the world. […]