Last spring, a winter’s worth of snow melted off ahead of schedule in Southwest Alaska, leading to earlier-than-usual fires in a place that’s not so fire-prone to begin with.
Climate Change
Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening drinking water
One researcher described streams that have become “so acidic that they curdle your powdered milk.”
Arctic Report Card 2022: Rapid climate change brings extreme events to the North
The report card authors say the last seven years are collectively the warmest seven years since the start of the last century.
Alaska routinely doesn’t budget enough for wildfire response, study finds
The state routinely underfunds wildfire costs up front, only to pay them off later.
2022 is Juneau’s wettest year on record
With three weeks left in the year, 2022 could surpass the 1991 record by several inches.
Utqiagvik reaches record-high 40 degrees in December
It’s the highest temperature recorded in Utqiagvik between Oct. 30 and April 22 in more than a century of monitoring.