(Photo courtesy Colin Maher) Trees are gaining ground in the Arctic as a result of climate change. A group of scientists studying tree cover in Alaska’s Brooks Range found that trees are ...

Alaska’s climate creates certain difficulties for those looking to grow vegetables, but one farm northwest of Fairbanks has found a way to use the natural cold in the ground for their benefit ...

Open water does not affect Alaska’s western and eastern Arctic tundra regions equally, and the results are seen on the ground ... news organization that covers Alaska state government.

Temperatures in the Arctic, which encompasses large ... or soil and rock that stays frozen year-round, covers 85% of Alaska. In the very far north, the ground is cold and frozen as deep as 1,000 ...

In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ... Encounters with Dall sheep, musk ox, Arctic ground squirrels and caribou kept my camera busy. Then there was that female grizzly with her blond ...

“As we see changes in the Arctic ... snow cover was below average, which tracks with trends observed over the past 15 years. The earlier snowmelt and the hot, dry conditions in Alaska were ...

By Mélissa Godin Male Arctic ground squirrels go through ... This new paper, which covers more than 25 years in Northern Alaska, is one of the first long-term research projects to present strong ...

Alaska-based U.S ... do what we do,” he added. Arctic Shock, which includes about 130 U.S. soldiers and 100 others from the Norwegian armed forces, hit the ground with field training designed ...