These sinkholes appear along the edge of the Arctic shelf and some are hundreds of feet wide. While these sinkholes are troubling, Paull says that they are “the result of longer-term, glacial ...

Stream by stream, the population is spreading from forested areas in the Interior into the Northwest Arctic. In the 1970s and ‘80s, beavers started to occupy the Nome area, where there’s a lot ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

How Arctic landscapes and Canadian cityscapes share a similar pattern Published: October 5 ... From above, the landscape looks like it has been tiled by puzzle pieces as wide as school buses; ...

Scientists identify how the dissection of Arctic landscapes is changing with accelerating climate change. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 09 ...

But sitting there on the ground, holding the leaves of a shrub that even then was visibly responding to a changing climate, an idea took root in her mind that the wide-open landscape of the tundra ...

My first Arctic venture was in 1983, with a fellow National Park Service ranger in a tandem kayak on the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic. We awoke one morning, startled by the sounds of a big ...

The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world. By Jonathan Bamber, The Conversation. Driven by climate change, thawing permafrost is radically changing the Arctic landscape ...

By Elizabeth Devitt It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures ischanging the Arctic landscape, threatening the survival of plants and animals adapted to ...