Seal meat makes up a good portion of what’s in subsistence hunters’ freezers in Kotzebue. But the sea ice the seals haul out on is diminishing, and new research shows that’s shortening the window to hunt seals.
Arctic
Rain fell on the peak of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history
The melting has implications for people far from Greenland. The ice loss is helping drive sea level rise, threatening coastal communities around the world with flooding.
Biden administration goes back to drawing board on oil leasing in Arctic Refuge
The announcement calls for a new study that will be a supplement to the 2019 environmental impact statement conducted by the Trump administration.
Thunderstorms move across Chukchi and Beaufort seas
Climate specialist Rick Thoman says the likelihood of these storms becoming more common is high and will continue to rise as our climate changes.
LISTEN: Alaska bumblebees are master twerkers, thriving in an unfriendly climate
As bumblebees have declined in parts of the Lower 48, they’re apparently thriving in Alaska, even in the high Arctic.
Dinosaurs likely lived in Arctic year-round, according to recent Alaska discovery
If dinosaurs were migrating, they would have had very little time to move to lower latitudes with newborns, which suggests that the animals did not, in fact migrate.