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 ...

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

Researchers traveled from Nome to Kotzebue from March 26 to April 3 to study how the increasing presence of beavers changes the Arctic landscape. (Photo by Ben Jones) ...

Beaver expansion into Alaska’s Arctic tundra presents problems for people, but also opportunities A wide-ranging research program led by a UAF ecologist is tracking the way beavers’ northward ...

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 ...

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 landscape’s natural ability to help to buffer human heat ... A map of Arctic precipitation from January to March 2024 shows the wide differences among regions and where some saw their ...

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; ...

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 ...

The Arctic landscape’s natural ability to help to buffer human heat-trapping gasses is ending, adding to the urgency to reduce human emissions. Stark regional differences make planning difficult ...