As Emmerson says, “Our ideas of the Arctic – permanent, pristine, unchanging – will persist long after they have been overtaken by Arctic change.”
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Six States of Alaska – Many Different Regions Found Within One Great Land
An inability to comprehend the great distances found in Alaska is a realization newcomers often encounter in the Great Land. Alaska defies their attempts to compare it with past experiences. Terrain varies immensely and distances between regions are vast. A useful way to understand Alaska is consider it as six states within a much greater [...]
Posted in Communities, Environment, Natural History Also tagged Alaskana, Interior Alaska, Southcentral Alaska, Southeast Alaska, Southwestern Alaska, Western Alaska Comments closed
Arctic Summers Could Soon be Ice-Free
Currently sea ice covers some 1.8 million square miles of the arctic during the summer season. Recent research expects the ice extent to rapidly decrease over the next 30 years to an average area of 390,000 square miles, which is a much shorter period than previous anticipated. Muyin Wang and James Overland had their study [...]
