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Alaskas Heat Wave Ignites Fires as Glaciers Rapidly Melt
2015-06-19 15:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate change has caused Alaskas glaciers to melt so quickly that a one-foot thick layer of water could completely cover the entire state of Alaska every seven years, according to a new study. Alaskan glaciers have lost 75 billion metric tons of ice every year from 1994 through 2013, The Washington Post's Chris Mooney reported from the study, which was recently accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Mooney also reported...
Alaskas glaciers are now losing 75 billion tons ice every year
2015-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In a new study, scientists with the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and several other institutions report a staggering finding: Glaciers of the United States largest and only Arctic state, Alaska, have lost 75 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons) of ice per year from 1994 through 2013. For comparison, thats roughly half of a recent estimate for ice loss for all of Antarctica (159 billion metric tons). It takes 360 gigatons of ice to lead to one millimeter of sea level rise, which...
Alaskas tricky intersection of Obama energy and climate legacies
2015-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obamas move to open up vast, untouched Arctic waters to oil and gas drilling as he pursues an ambitious plan to fight climate change illustrates the inherent tensions in his environmental and energy agenda. As the first president to seriously tackle climate change, Mr. Obama has proposed aggressive new rules to cut planet-warming carbon emissions from the nations power plants and is pushing for a major global warming accord. He has also overseen an extraordinary boom in domestic energy...
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DNA suggests all early eskimos migrated from Alaska's North Slope
2015-04-29 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] CHICAGO — Genetic testing of Iñupiat people currently living in Alaska's North Slope is helping Northwestern University scientists fill in the blanks on questions about the migration patterns and ancestral pool of the people who populated the North American Arctic over the last 5,000 years. “This is the first evidence that genetically ties all of the Iñupiat and Inuit populations from Alaska, Canada and Greenland back to the Alaskan North Slope,…
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Climate Change Puts Alaska's Dog Sled Races On Thin Ice
2015-02-07 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: For more than 30 years, the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog race, which begins Saturday, has followed the Yukon River between Whitehorse, Canada, and Fairbanks, Alaska. A little open water along the Yukon Quest trail is nothing new, but in recent years, long unfrozen stretches of the Yukon River have shaken even the toughest mushers. Last year, musher Hank DeBruin of Ontario had stopped along the Yukon River to rest his dog team in the middle of the night, when the ice started...
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