alaska, Tag

Thawing permafrost is set to radically alter the landscape of northern parts of the United States. Roads, homes, and infrastructure built atop permafrost can crack or collapse as it melts. And whole villages may have to relocate....

Guest post by David Middleton Dr. Rusty Riese’s May 2014 presentation to the Houston Geological Society… Speaker:  W.C. Rusty Riese Adjunct Professor, Rice University Climate Change: Facts and Fictions The past...

Permafrost is losing in the battle against climate change. Even as we attempt to mitigate climate change by reducing fossil fuel use, researchers say thawing permafrost could make our atmosphere 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit hotter...

Italian company plans to drill four exploration wells in the Arctic, which some say will endanger polar bears, bowhead whales and other marine mammals

Nanoleaf - creators of the first modular smart light - recently unveiled a mesmerizing light wall at Alaska's Anchorage Museum that evokes remote Arctic landscapes...

Solar power is soaring, wind goes from strength to strength. Look for a mighty surge in renewables over the next few years

A BP oil and gas well in Alaska blew out late last week, uncontrollably spilling crude oil and gas just around 60 miles away from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...

A leaking natural gas pipeline in Cook Inlet, Alaska won’t be fixed until the ice melts – continuing to flow unchecked into a habitat for endangered beluga whales...

At the end of June, a 4,000-foot-tall mountainside crashed down near Alaska's Glacier Bay, resulting in a colossal landslide. While nobody was around when it happened, Pilot Paul Swanstrom of the Mountain Flying Service recorded...

Last week, I posted on the effect of ex post site selection on the Gulf of Alaska tree ring chronology used in Wilson et al 2016 (from Wiles et al 2014)...

The bias arising from ex post selection of sites for regional tree ring chronologies has been a long standing issue at Climate Audit, especially in connection with Briffa’s chronologies for Yamal and Polar Urals (see...

The shores of Alaska’s Prince William Sound are littered with the carcasses of tens of thousands of seabirds after a mass die-off that scientists say could be caused by climate change...

The company’s exit has ‘lifted a burden’ on villagers who depend on marine mammal meat, says one Alaska Native, but a state representative bemoans the decision after residents ‘stood on the cusp of another boom’

Oil giant’s US president says hugely controversial drilling operations off Alaska will stop for ‘foreseeable future’ as drilling finds little oil and gas

Oil company’s US president reveals decision after offshore well in the Chukchi sea basin