Looking at all daily observations in the GHCN-D database globally, this 89°F (31.7°C) reading *may be* the warmest temperature ever recorded north of 70°N. The U.S. and Canada data are pretty robust and there is clearly nothing this warm, but Russian data is not great.

here’s a visual to show the issues caused by climate change induced melting permafrost in alaska we have entire communities and infrastructure built on this… mostly indigenous villages

I visited Tuxedni Bay last week. The whole area is phenomenally beautiful and so rich with wildlife, from brown bears, wolves, and wolverines on land, to belugas, horned puffins, and salmon in the water. Destroying this place for a gold mine is preposterous. Not on our watch.

Cruise ships in SE Alaska have no speed limits. Reducing ship speeds has been shown to drastically decrease the chance of vessels hitting whales. This is a common-sense requirement that NOAA Fisheries should implement immediately.

Yet on both federal and state lands in the Alaskan Arctic, there is a push for a boon of new oil drilling projects, including the Willow Project. Earlier this year, we petitioned the federal government to take a hard look at all the devastating harms of Arctic oil drilling and

Sen. Sullivan is going to be disappointed with what he gets back from his FOIA request. We, people who live in Alaska (not lower 48 environmentalists), don't want to "shut Alaska down." We want to see it avoid total climate breakdown.

Another former Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game wildlife biologist speaks out about the Dept.'s scientifically unjustifiable predator control program for the Mulchatna caribou herd - last year 94 brown bears were killed by helicopter, this year 81 more. adn.com/opinions/2024/…

There used to be tens of thousands of North Pacific right whales. There's now less than 50 in the distinct and critically endangered eastern Pacific-Alaska population. Yet, we know almost nothing about their migratory routes, calving grounds, or life history. It's important we

The wall is the crisis at the border.

Alaska is committing suicide by continuing down the death spiral of more oil and gas drilling, especially in the Arctic. Alaska will be unrecognizable, and not for the better, in short order if we don't make rapid and dramatic shifts in our priorities. #keepitintheground

A rare, true "no action" alternative decision by BLM finalized today, protecting 28 million acres (collectively about the size of the entire state of Pennsylvania) of federal land across Alaska that could have been devastated by fossil fuel development and mining.

The Klamath River is now free. #undamtheklamath

"I wondered how animals responded when vehicles abandoned one of the West’s most iconic protected areas—& how they’ll react when traffic returns." For High Country News, I wrote about the inadvertent experiment playing out in Denali Nat Park. #roadecology hcn.org/issues/56-9/wh…