Alaska’s state environmental authorities will now be responsible for protecting its tundra landscapes and other waterways that are not connected to navigable waters (Photo: Andrea Pokrzywinski) It will now be up to US states to determine how wetland areas should be...
A juvenile Arctic ground squirrel at mealtime near Toolik Field Station in northern Alaska (Photo: Cory Williams / Colorado State University) Female Arctic ground squirrels in Alaska are hibernating for ten fewer days than they did 25 years ago. Males, though, still...
The town of Circle, located on the banks of the Yukon River, saw flooding begin on 13 May, when water levels rose three metres in the span of 30 minutes. Blocks of ice, released during the break-up, clustered together, creating dams that caused the river to overflow...
Kaktovik is located on the northern edge of Alaska, on the North Slope. The population of the village is about 280 inhabitants. This is where the figures for the Inupiaq were developed. Image: Google Maps Invented nearly 30 years ago by a group of Iñupiak students who...
Located in northern Alaska, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska was created in 1923 by then U.S. President Harding to reduce the U.S. Navy’s dependence on coal. Since the 1990s, numerous oil and gas exploitation projects have been conducted in this more than...
