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How Is the Climate Crisis Affecting Alaska?


What Climate Change Means for Alaska - US EPA

Climate change is likely to affect Alaska's animal biodiversity. Declining Arctic sea ice can harm polar bear populations, by reducing their ability to ...

Alaska and a Changing Climate

Reduced ice coverage, including shrinking glaciers, retreating sea ice, and thawing permafrost, are all serious impacts of rapid warming. Meanwhile, much of ...

Climate Impacts in Alaska - US EPA

Climate change leads to more permafrost thaw and disruptions to freeze-thaw cycles that can increase frost heaves and subsidence. This can ...

How climate change is affecting Alaska? - Reddit

Alaska is at the forefront of climate change as the rate of change is double or triple the global average. Permafrost is melting, glaciers are shrinking, sea ...

Alaska and the Arctic | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Loss of sea ice, thawing permafrost, and other climate-driven changes in Alaska are transforming ecosystems, disrupting cultural practices, harming fisheries ...

Climate Change and Wild Foods in Alaska

Rising ocean temperatures can alter the migration and abundance of prey, which can make it difficult for seabirds to find prey. As such, these events can lead ...

How Will Climate Change Affect Alaska?

Average annual temperatures have increased by 3 degrees Fahrenheit and average winter temperatures by 6 degrees Fahrenheit. •. Alaskans are already seeing ...

Alaska | National Climate Assessment

Because of its cold-adapted features and rapid warming, climate change impacts on Alaska are already pronounced, including earlier spring snowmelt, reduced sea ...

Responding to the Effects of Climate Change on Subsistence in ...

Some of the most damaging effects of climate change in Alaska have been the social and cultural impacts for subsistence users. When individuals ...

How Is the Climate Crisis Affecting Alaska?

Record-breaking temperatures, rapidly melting ice, and huge, hungry wildfires tell a different story. Alaska is on the front lines of this crisis.

Climate & Energy | Alaska Conservation Foundation

Mining and burning fossil fuels threaten Alaska's lands, waters, wildlife, and communities, and also contribute to the warming of the earth's climate.

Climate change report highlights impacts to Alaska infrastructure ...

Among the most profound impacts of climate change in Alaska are threats to the built environment, which is now much more costly to maintain, the ...

Alaska - Fourth National Climate Assessment

Climate change also brings a wide range of human health threats to Alaskans due to increased injuries, smoke inhalation, damage to vital infrastructure, ...

High-latitude Climate Change - Alaska Nature and Science (U.S. ...

Alaska's climate is influenced by the oceans and sea ice, its high-latitude location on Earth, major mountain ranges and elevation, and continentality in ...

Popular Geology - Climate Change

During the last several decades, Alaska has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the United States. The impacts of a rapidly changing climate on Alaska are ...

The Effects of Global Warming in Alaska | PBS LearningMedia

The effects of global warming in Alaska are significant, varied, and interrelated. They include melting permafrost, receding glaciers, eroding coasts, ...

Alaska communities must adapt as climate change transforms state ...

Declining sea ice, thinning snowpack, thawing permafrost and other climate-driven changes are threatening the health, livelihoods and cultural practices of ...

Climate Adaptation | Alaska Wildlife Alliance (AWA)

Alaska's climate is warming at 3-4 times the rate of the Lower 48. Glaciers are receding, sea ice is disappearing, sea levels are rising, permafrost is ...

Climate change in Alaska - Wikipedia

With winter temperatures increasing, the type of precipitation will change. Lack of snow cover on the ground will expose tree roots to colder soils.

New report highlights Alaska's last five years of dramatic climate ...

Climate change threatens dire consequences for many Alaska Native villages in remote areas, where subsistence hunting, fishing, and gathering ...