Parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than most of the rest of the world. That's forcing tough choices for ...

The PBS program Frontline investigates the impacts of climate change in rural, coastal Alaska communities, where warming is ...

More information: Roger Creel et al, Permafrost thaw subsidence, sea-level rise, and erosion are transforming Alaska's Arctic coastal zone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024 ...

TOM RAVENS, University of Alaska Anchorage ... and permafrost is a natural way to protect against coastal erosion. Permafrost is absolutely the glue that's holding all the sediment along the ...

Each year, the home sinks six inches. When the marshy land engulfed the original flooring from her childhood home, Chase laid ...

While artificial reefs have been used around the world to bolster biodiversity, their use for erosion control is new. Lake ...

The grant was approved just weeks before President Biden left office. Kivalina is one of the many villages home to Alaska Natives confronting coastal erosion and storm surges as the Arctic warms from ...

Alaska is experiencing more extreme consequences of climate change than the continental United States. Coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, melting sea ice, and fishery collapse are all ramifications ...