Climate Change and Wildfire in Alaska

As climate change reshapes Alaska's landscapes, tundra fires are ...

As climate change continues to reshape the state's environment, tundra fires are becoming both more frequent and more severe.

Wildfires and Climate Change - C2ES

Climate change has been a key factor in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the Western United States. Wildfire risk depends on a number of ...

After a slow start, Alaska wildfire season wraps up as unremarkable

A study newly published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that areas in Western Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta that have ...

Fire, climate change, and forest resilience in interior Alaska

Fire disturbance may thus act to catalyze community responses to climate change, by temporarily weakening the plant and soil feedbacks that account for stand- ...

How Will Climate Change Impact the Alaskan Wildfire Season?

The magnitude and extremes of historical Alaskan wildfires have been linked with climate variability and anthropogenic climate change.

Deploying Fire Suppression in Yukon Flats, AK - Woodwell Climate

But in boreal Alaska and Canada, it's just the opposite. The spruce-dominated forests are adapted to high-intensity fires that only return every ...

Alaska on fire: Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate ...

In Alaska's interior, much of the area has been abnormally dry since late April. So, with the lightning storms, it's no surprise that we're now ...

Alaska Chokes on Wildfires as Heat Waves Dry Out the Arctic

A 2016 paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society showed that human-caused climate change increased the risk of extreme fire ...

Smoke From Wildfires in Alaska May Increase Health Risks for ...

Regions around the world are experiencing the effects of climate change differently. In Alaska, higher temperatures, later winters, earlier ...

Increased risk of the 2019 Alaskan July fires due to anthropogenic ...

By sorting out controlling factors of wildfires in Alaska, this modeling study improves our understanding of the impact of climate change on wildfires in Alaska ...

Alaska's Wildfire Seasons Are Getting Worse, Experts Say | TIME

Record-breaking temperatures and dried-out vegetation has set the stage for major fires in much of Alaska this summer, scientists say.

(PDF) Estimating wildfire response costs in Alaska's changing climate

5, totaling $41.9–72.9M per year. For RCP4.5, the highest costs were projected for the 2070 era (2060–2079) and totaled $36.2–63.4M per year.

New-Growth Alaskan Forests May Store More Carbon After Wildfires

The forests are actually on track to store more carbon than they did before, offering a rare note of optimism from the frontlines of climate ...

What do Alaska Wildfires Mean for Global Climate Change?

During the (on-going) 2019 fire season, over 2 million acres have burned - an area roughly equivalent to that of Yellowstone National Park.

Alaska Is on Track for a Record Fire Season - Yale E360

Fires have ripped through 2 million acres so far this year, roughly 10 times the total area burned in all of 2021. “While this doesn't guarantee ...

Alaska's Fire Environment: Not an Average Place

Like much of the boreal forest, fire in Alaska follows an understandable pattern – large stand replacement fires that are difficult to suppress on remote ground ...

Increasing Wildfire in Alaska's Boreal Forest: Pathways to Potential ...

In this article, we illustrate the wicked nature of such problems by describing the effects of global warming on the wildfire regime and indigenous communities ...

'There is no silver lining': why Alaska fires are a glimpse of our ...

A recent report from the University of Alaska's Institute of Social and Economic Research projected that due to increased climate risk, ...

Is Alaska Prepared For Extreme Wildfires? – Polar Prediction Matters

Due to polar amplification, Arctic and sub-Arctic regions have been increasingly influenced by climate change and variability, causing more ...

About 2.5 Million Acres in Alaska Have Burned. The State's Wildfire ...

Climate change is likely a factor in the increased frequency of wildfires, and the smoke released from them puts more carbon into the atmosphere ...