Precipitation has increased by 20 inches a year in the last century and will keep rising. Ocean warming will stress marine ecosystems. More landslides will happen as the region gets warmer and wetter.
Climate Change
Researchers can now explain how climate change is affecting your weather
For decades, it was impossible to say that a specific weather event was caused, or even made worse, by climate change. But advanced research methods are changing that.
New federal proposal for offshore drilling includes possible Cook Inlet oil and gas sale
In a new proposed five-year plan for offshore drilling, the Department of the Interior floated the idea of auctioning off leases to oil and gas companies in the inlet in 2026. That’s in addition to 10 lease sales proposed for the Gulf of Mexico.
Ecologists say federal wildfire plans are dangerously out of step with climate change
Many forest ecologists say the U.S. Forest Service is hampered by an outdated approach to prescribed fires, a key tool for reducing the threat of megafires made worse by climate change.
When the temperature hits 70, Alaskans feel the heat — and start suffering health ills
Acclimatization, the angle of the sun at high latitudes and other factors make summer heat more intense in Alaska.
Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s authority to mandate carbon emissions reductions
By a 6 to 3 vote, the court said that any time an agency does something big and new — in this case addressing climate change — the regulation is presumptively invalid, unless Congress has authorized regulating in that sphere.