A recent study warns that outdated laws in Canada and Southeast Alaska don’t do enough to protect salmon habitat as climate change transforms the landscape.
Climate Change
2023 was a tragic and bizarre year of wildfires. Will it mark a turning point?
Unusual and tragic are two words that might describe the 2023 wildfire season which experts say might end up being a game changer for U.S. fire policy.
People are leaving some neighborhoods because of floods, a new study finds
There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.
‘We’re always going to be surprised’: Wrangell’s tragedy highlights Alaska’s lack of landslide monitoring
Scientists say Southeast mostly lacks the kinds of monitoring that could make people safer.
‘The time for action is now’: NOAA’s Arctic Report Card paints a dire picture of climate change
This year’s report centered Indigenous perspectives, including contributions by a network of coastal Alaska observers from Kotzebue to Kaktovik.
Warming seas helped cause Alaska’s snow crab crash, scientists say
Alaska’s snow crab fishery has been closed since 2022 when regulators declared the population overfished.