The Coast Guard contingent heard comments from Nome’s Mayor Richard Beneville, City Manager Tom Moran, along with business and nonprofit representatives.
Climate Change
Wildfire season gets an early start
The Alaska Interagency Coordination reports a 25-acre blaze in the Palmer being worked by 13 firefighters, with smaller blazes in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, on the Kenai and in the Fairbanks area, drawing responses or being monitored in recent days.
Middle Kuskokwim villages experience earliest breakup on record
According to the National Weather Service breakup database, the earliest breakup for Kalskag was April 22, 1940. The records go back to 1938.
Experts: Nomadic tradition waning, but Natives’ connection to land persists
“The culture is not lost; the culture has changed. Just as ours isn’t the same culture that our forefathers lived in, let’s say, the 17th century.”
Adapting To A More Extreme Climate, Coastal Cities Get Creative
In preparation for sea level rise, vulnerable cities are building infrastructure to protect themselves. But as a look at New Orleans and Philadelphia shows, the strategies are unique to each city.
Permafrost-preserving technology may work better farther north as climate warms
Some 200 big rigs travel the Dalton Highway on an average day to bring supplies to the giant Prudhoe Bay oilfield complex. All that trucking requires regular repair work along the 414-mile mostly gravel road – an ongoing and costly challenge that could become even more if road-building technologies developed to protect permafrost under roadways no longer work.