If climate change was a song, what would it sound like? Alaska composer Michael Bucy has an answer to that question. Warming oceans, melting ice and disrupted jet streams came…
John Walsh, chief scientist at the International Arctic Research Center, has received the Mohn Prize for his outstanding research in the Arctic. The prize amounts to roughly $230,000 and is…
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and no place is experiencing more extreme impacts than the Arctic. The International Arctic Research Center is making it…
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing Alaska today. Arctic residents experience a near constant barrage of new threats, from severe weather extremes, to failing infrastructure and changing…
The National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs recently funded the University of Alaska Fairbanks and six other institutions to synthesize what is known about the changing Arctic environment and…
Members of the US Coast Guard Office of Marine Environmental Response (USCG MER) Policy division met with International Arctic Research Center director Hajo Eicken, deputy director Scott Rupp, and researchers Jessica…
University of Alaska Fairbanks affiliate Mike Sfraga was appointed on Friday as the new chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Sfraga, an affiliate research faculty at the International Arctic…
A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led expedition embarks this week for a 40-day scientific cruise to assess the state of the eastern Arctic Ocean. The expedition, which is part of the Nansen…
Over the course of each year the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center works with federal, state, and Alaska Native partners to provide actionable research on local-scale climate scenarios, wildfire patterns,…
The State of the Climate this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the beginning of the month and the Arctic Report Card before the year’s end. A new…
