The research, published in Nature Communications, found that icefield-wide, rates of glacier area shrinkage were five times faster from 2015–2019 relative to 1948–1979. Additionally, 100% of glaciers mapped in…Continue readingMelting of Alaskan glaciers accelerating faster than previously thought, research suggests
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It was when the US Bureau of Indian Affairs built schools in Alaska, as part of an effort to assimilate Indigenous peoples into white culture, that the community was…Continue readingAlaska Native community relocates as climate crisis ravages homes
Smoke from hundreds of wildfires has darkened skies over the Alaskan interior this summer with the state experiencing its fastest start to the fire season on record amid hot…Continue reading‘Nothing left to burn’: Wildfires blaze through the Arctic