(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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rapid changes in Arctic temperatures are influencing animal reproductive behavior. A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist ... the Arctic ground squirrel. “We call them ‘Sik siks ...

RUSKIN: Yeah, it covers nearly every controversial Alaska land-use issue this century. It includes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, offshore drilling.

Special operators broke new ground ... Arctic are ongoing. The two-week Nordic Response, which involves 20,000 U.S. and allied troops, will conclude Thursday. Meanwhile, soldiers from the Alaska ...