Arctic Ocean ice shrinks to second lowest on record
The countdown to the annual Arctic slush cup has ended, and the realm of polar bear and ice seal has shrunk yet again. The meltback may not be as bad as last year, but it’s worse than any other season...
View ArticleArctic Ice: The Shrink Goes On
Source: NSIDC The annual late-summer meltdown of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska has commenced in earnest. While the satellite jockeys at the National Snow & Ice Data Center aren’t logging...
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Far North Science will return soon with fresh content on Alaskan science developments and Arctic natural acts. Bear with me as I tweak the machine.
View ArticleArctic sea ice melt slows in August
With only one month left before the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean typically shrinks to its annual minimum for the year, stormy weather and chilly temperatures have partly slowed the retreat, according to...
View ArticleAre pink salmon colonizing Scottish streams?
As the scientists, fishermen and Native Americans worry about the environmental consequences from the escape of as many as 160,000 Atlantic salmon from a collapsing Puget Sound net pen, a biologist...
View ArticleNorthern Sea Route opens wide
The Northern Sea Route along Russia’s Arctic coast has become completely ice free, triggering a late summer surge in shipping traffic, mostly along the Russian Arctic coast, according to new story...
View ArticleAntarctic Ice does not balance
Year after year, the summer extent of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has dramatically declined — making life more difficult for marine mammals like walrus and polar bears while increasing the amount of...
View ArticleBeluga Update: New study and whale fans pod up
On a brilliant sunny Saturday along the roiling ocean shore near Anchorage, 1,237 volunteer whale watchers used scopes and binoculars and raw enthusiasm to nail 260 sightings of one of the country’s...
View ArticleTwo stokes forward, one stroke backward
Climate science and weather prediction can be a lot like paddling down a river in a one-person packraft. You intend to thread a mid-river line, but you catch a contrary back eddy that squirrels you...
View ArticleWarmer and wetter winters ahead for Alaska, colder and drier behind
One hundred twenty years ago today, hard winter struck Southcentral Alaska, with frigid temperatures biting down in the spirit of a Robert Service couplet. We know this because pioneer miners had...
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