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View recent news highlights from around IARC. For older entries, please see archived news stories.
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Knowledge You Can Touch: Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center Brings Learning to Life at the Arctic Research Open House
This month, the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center took part in the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Arctic Research Open House, an event that draws hundreds of Fairbanks residents to the Trot…
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Alaska is Adapting and ‘Knowing Our Changing Home’ is Helping Us Understand What that Looks Like
The Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center is excited to announce the publication of “Knowing Our Changing Home: Snow & Ice Edition.” This publication features 13 stories that bring Alaska's…
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Conclusion by Annika Ord
Knowing Our Changing Home Conclusion By Annika Ord In Alaska, weather isn’t just a topic for small talk and brief encounters, it dictates whether our freezers are full and our grocery stores stocke…
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Foreword by Kristin Timm
Knowing Our Changing Home FOREWORD By Kristin Timm As a kid growing up in Wisconsin, I remember always sledding on Thanksgiving morning. Somewhere around the time I stopped sledding, sledding on Th…
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Sentinels of the Northern slopes: Mountain Goats, Avalanches and Ceremonial Robes
To be a mountain goat is to live where no one else dares. High above the treelines of Southeast Alaska, the alpine mammals creep along ridgelines and mountainsides through dense snow in search of b…
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Changing Ice and Rising Waters: Glacial Floods in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley
It was one of those rare cloudless days in Juneau when the Mendenhall Valley felt like a playground. Kids pedaled along trails, families hiked beside the lake, and lawns buzzed with summer chores. …
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Rivers of Change: The Impact of Climate Shifts on Salmon Habitats in Southeast Alaska
Water is the thread that weaves Lingít Aaní or Southeast Alaska together. It falls from the sky as relentless rain, clings to mountains as snow and collects in ice fields and glaciers. It trickles …
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Berry-stained Science in a Changing Climate
Up the Taku River, a washtub sank under the weight of red jewels, glittering in the sunlight. A family skiff held thousands of ripe nagoonberries and strawberries, evidence of a long day of harvest.
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70,000 Walrus, Seals and Sea Ice
The loss of Arctic sea ice has cycled through headlines for decades, rising and falling in public attention as new records are broken. But for researchers like Maeghan Connor and Donna Hauser, sea …
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Ice science from pre-k to gray
Father Thinh Van Tran knows about ice. A Catholic priest who serves the Diocese of Fairbanks, he’s spent time in the remote rural Alaska communities of Nulato, Koyukuk, Galena and Kaltag, deep in I…
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Announcing the launch of the AAOKH Endowment Fund
📢📢 We have big news!! Support AAOKH today to sustain your impact for generations! AAOKH launched the Alaska Arctic Observatory & Knowledge Hub Endowment Fund aimed at sustaining and strengthen…
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Alaska Wildfire Explorer Relaunched for 2026 season
Alaska Wildfire Explorer back online for 2026 wildfire season
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Thawing permafrost and rusting rivers update
The following article appeared in the IARC 2025 Annual Report (Year in Review) publication. This research also contributed to a recent (in press) article in the journal Communications Earth &&…
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Public exhibit blends art, science and community knowledge
An art and science exhibit this spring at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center in Fairbanks explores the beauty, complexity and changing nature of Alaska’s winter.
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Improved response times and zonal statistics on SNAP API
API v1.3.4 release notes
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New and improved online database!
We’re very happy to share an update on a project we’ve been working on with our partners at the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) to revamp and improve functionali…
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Winter 2026 Newsletter
We are excited to share our latest edition of AAOKH News! In this issue Bobby Schaeffer offers his observation and reflection of ex-typhoon Halong alongside Rick Thoman’s weather and climate …
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IARC director tapped to lead Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute
Hajo Eicken, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, has been selected as scientific director at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine…
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Arctic Report Card celebrates 20 years
The 20th edition of the Arctic Report Card, published this week, continues to serve as a record of persistent and extraordinary warming in the North. As has been the case…
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Arctic Report Card celebrates 20 years
The 20th edition of the Arctic Report Card, published this week, continues to serve as a record of persistent and extraordinary warming in the North. As has been the case…
