If the trend continues, snowpacks will be smaller and hydropower plants could run out of water in the summer. Salmon streams could run low, making it harder for fry to leave and adults to spawn.
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Far-out science at giant gathering on Earth and space
Following a press conference at the enormous fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, an unusual sound was heard in a room of reporters: Applause.
Another electric vehicle charging station to go online in Juneau
The fourth publicly accessible electric vehicle charging station in Juneau will go online the day after Christmas at the Marine Parking Garage.
Far-north changes pondered in San Francisco
At this annual gathering of more than 20,000 Earth and space scientists, press conferences offered by the organizers feature scientists discussing everything from Mars rovers whiffing methane to Christmas lights visible from space.
Coastline search leads to first residents’ camps
Understanding the rise and fall of Southeast Alaska’s landscape is helping scientists learn more about the area’s early human settlements.
Mastodons long gone from the north
A recent look at far-north mastodons shows the creatures vanished from the Arctic thousands of years earlier than researchers thought.