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Melting Glaciers Will Challenge Some Salmon Populations and Benefit Others

By Braden McMillan | SFU on Mar 11, 2020   Featured, Science/Education  

Melting Glaciers Will Challenge Some Salmon Populations and Benefit Others

  A new Simon Fraser University-led study looking at the effects that glacier retreat will have on western North American Pacific salmon predicts that while some salmon populations may struggle, others may benefit. The research, published today in the journal BioScience, examined the multiple ways in which salmon might be affected by climate-change driven glacier retreat […]

The Recent Fall of the Upper Yukon River

By Alaska Native News on Feb 28, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The Recent Fall of the Upper Yukon River

While skiing with two friends on the frozen Yukon River a few weeks ago, I visited the eight people who live between the towns of Eagle and Circle, which are 160 river miles apart. The adults in those three households all shared the same observation: The Yukon River’s average level has dropped recently. They all […]

The Sound of Silence in Russell Fjord

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 7, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The Sound of Silence in Russell Fjord

Image: Dead trees near a shoreline of Russell Fjord about 15 miles from the town of Yakutat. Ned Rozell photo. RUSSELL FJORD — Standing on this smooth gravel shoreline, 15 miles northeast of the town of Yakutat, you can tell something big happened. A forest of dead trees encircles the shoreline. The dry, bone-white stems […]

DDT in Alaska Meltwater Poses Cancer Risk for People Who Eat Lots of Fish

By Beth Staples | University of Maine on Dec 8, 2018   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

DDT in Alaska Meltwater Poses Cancer Risk for People Who Eat Lots of Fish

  [dropcap]C[/dropcap]hildren in Alaska whose diet includes a lot of fish from rivers fed by the Eastern Alaska Mountain Range may have a long-term elevated risk for cancer because of insecticides — including DDT — in the meltwater. Even with low levels of organochlorine pollutants (OCPs) in glacial meltwater, the risk of cancer for youth […]

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