A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty, students and staff has been conducting Arctic fieldwork in Utqiagvik since mid-April to measure snowmelt, but the melt only started in mid-June. This is an exceptionally late melt year. The Snow Albedo Evolution in the Arctic team, or SALVO, has been working hard through the midnight sun, […]
UAS professor Eran Hood is part of a team of scientists who found that the retreat of glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia’s coastal temperate rainforest could produce more than 3,800 miles of potential new Pacific salmon habitat by the year 2100. A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, lead by researchers at […]
“It is possible that the Arctic Ocean is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought,” said one of the study’s authors. New research published Wednesday revealed the Arctic Ocean has been warming for decades longer than scientists previously understood, raising fresh concerns as the polar region faces the growing threat of a total loss of […]
The ice shelf on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier lost about one-fifth of its area from 2017 to 2020, mostly in three dramatic breaks. The timelapse video incorporates satellite images from January 2015 to March 2020. For most of the first two years, the satellite took high-resolution images every 12 days; then for more than […]