Homegrown tomatoes and corn in Alaska? Climate change could make it possible in the 2030s and ‘40s – a rare silver lining for this fast-warming state.
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Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon all experienced big increases in both deposits and lending shortly after legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
Today’s building codes were implemented as a result of devastating natural disasters that resulted in the loss of human lives and billions of dollars. But they aren’t retroactively applied.
Alaska is warming faster than any other U.S. state, and that’s causing problems, a team of bridge engineers and social scientists explains. The infrastructure bill in Congress would offer some help.
Scientists are urging the Biden administration to protect mature US forests as a climate change strategy, starting with the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.
A new study finds more deciduous trees like aspen are growing in after severe fires in the region, and that has some unexpected impacts.
An ecologist describes her field research and work on the impact of human activity on birds and their pathogens, which has taken her from Alaska to the Gulf of Guinea.
New research shows that permafrost contains huge amounts of particles that make it easier for cloud moisture to freeze. Thawing permafrost is releasing these ice-nucleating particles.
The pandemic recession has reduced US energy demand, roiling budgets in states that are major fossil fuel producers. But politics and culture can impede efforts to look beyond oil, gas and coal.
The Trump administration is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing – a step that’s as much about politics as it is about energy.
As climate change warms northern rivers and changes precipitation patterns, some types of cold-loving fish are failing.
The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the planet as a whole, with serious consequences. Scientists have been warning about this for decades.
The historical record is full of surprises – and it could encourage conservationists to think more creatively.
Alaska has been mostly spared from the virus, but the outbreak’s impact on its economy could still be catastrophic because of its reliance on seasonal tourism.
Dams built to hold enormous quantities of toxic mining waste have a long history of spills. Decisions in the Pacific Northwest threaten three free-flowing rivers there.
The gap between rich and poor is at record levels in the U.S., yet it varies widely among the states. A political scientist explains why.
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn’t be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.
A researcher based in Fairbanks, Alaska, links 2019’s record-breaking wildfires in far northern regions of the world to climate change, and describes what it’s like as zones near her city burn.
Nationwide, state government money has become a smaller and smaller fraction of public higher education budgets.
How did Alaska, one of the richest states in the Union, end up with budget cuts that lawmakers on both sides say could wreck the state’s future? One answer’s found in three letters: PFD.
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Scott L. Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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SNAP Coordinator, Research Faculty, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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PhD candidate, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway University of London
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
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Adjunct Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director, Bioethics & Health Law Center, Mississippi College
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Professor of Economics, Boston University
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Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology, UMass Amherst
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Alberta
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Professor of Practice in Meteorology, Professor of International Affairs & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State
