"Alaska Wolf Found With Record Amount of Mercury, a Sign of Growing Contamination"#Alaska #Animals #Wolves
Alaska Wolf Found With Record Amount of Mercury, a Sign of Growing Contamination
The #Yukon and #Alaska have just ended the old year with an #earthquake .
Dear Canadians and Americans... tongue-in-cheek.How about an Alaska/Alberta swap?Inspired by this Letter to the Editor written by a Mike Jens in Anchorage, Alaska to the Anchorage Daily News#Canada #USA #Alberta #Alaska
A 3,000-year high: Alaska’s Arctic is entering a dangerous new fire era #Alaska
A 3,000-year high: Alaska’s Arctic is entering a dangerous new fire eraFor thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming temperatures dried soils and fueled the spread of shrubs, setting the stage for intense fires. Peat cores and satellite data reveal that fire activity since the 1950s has reached record levels. The findings suggest the Arctic is entering a new, more dangerous fire era.