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Climate Change and Wildfire in Alaska


Alaska | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment ... An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons ...

Estimating wildfire response costs in Alaska's changing climate

We projected area burned and associated response costs to 2100 under relatively high and low climate forcing scenarios (representative concentration pathways ( ...

Air pollution from wildfires and human health vulnerability in Alaskan ...

Exposure to wildfire-PM2.5 likely presents a substantial public health burden in the present day for Alaska communities, with different impacts ...

Climate Impacts in Alaska - US EPA

Warming in Alaska is already thawing permafrost, decreasing Arctic sea ice, changing ecosystems, and threatening the traditional livelihoods of ...

Global Warming to Spur More Fires in Alaska, in Turn Causing More ...

Dangerous cycle includes more tundra blazes and threats to the boreal forests, as well as the people of Alaska, new research shows.

Alaska's terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate ...

The fires are just the latest indicator of a climatic transformation that is remaking the state — its forests, its coasts, its glaciers, ...

Alaska wildfires linked to climate change

The unusually dry conditions that caused the wildfires of 2015 to blaze out of control are due to climate change.

Wildfires to increase in Alaska with future climate change

Climate change is melting glaciers, reducing sea-ice cover and increasing wildlife activity -- with some of the most dramatic impacts ...

Wildfires to increase in Alaska with future climate change - Phys.org

Young, also a doctoral candidate at the University of Idaho, projects that by the end of this century the probability of burning in many high- ...

Climate change affecting life in Alaska - ICT News

For one thing, he told ICT, more than 60 percent of the forest lands of the Alaskan Gwich'in nation have burned in wildfires in the past 10 ...

Alaska's forest fires are shifting the region's carbon ... - Science

In Alaska, where wildfires have burned through many old-growth spruce forests in the past half-decade, deciduous trees—such as aspen and birch—are starting to ...

Alaska's permafrost threatened by intense fires, climate change

Experts here fear climate change will cause even more devastating fires through a combination of lower snowpack, drying tundra and melting permafrost.

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 on Fire: the Impacts of Climate Change on the Alaskan Tundra

Figure 4: Natalie Baillargeon harvesting aboveground biomass for the study. Photo by Rhys MacArthur.

Beetles and climate change helped create this huge wildfire in Alaska

The bugs have killed and weakened countless trees in this area, creating more kindling. That's forced fire command agencies to take a step back ...

Spike in Alaska wildfires is worsening global warming, US says

A record wildfire year – such as 2015 which was the worst in Alaska for a decade – had a measurable effect on the release of carbon dioxide and ...

Alaska Entering New Era for Wildfires | Climate Central

Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and ...

Alaska's terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate ...

Alaska's terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change ... Washington Post - Hundreds of wildfires are continually whipping across this state ...

Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series: Wildfires

Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series: Wildfires. University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension. For more information about this resource, please visit ...