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To the editor: I recently attended a community outreach presentation on the proposed Shovel Creek Wind project by a local company, Alaska Renewables. I am in awe of the tremendous

One hundred years ago, a group of men sailed to the northern coast of Alaska to find a land mass rumored to protrude from the Arctic Ocean. They did not

100 years later, researchers studying the Far North still consult Leffingwells writings.

The vast permafrost areas that span the northern polar regions have actually absorbed more carbon than they have released, scientists say

Thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases and increased wildfires, are slowly transforming Northern Forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.

From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.

From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.


From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.


There is some debate as to whether this thawing of permafrost in peatland ecosystems is “a long freight train moving slowly as it unloads its greenhouse gases" or a carbon bomb about to blow as the train careens off the tracks.

Share Scientists fear a planned hunt for oil on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this winter could harm female polar bears and their newborn cubs that live along the southern edge of the Beaufort Sea. Steven Kazlowski/Minden Pictures Plan to map oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge ignores environmental risks, critics say Dec. 21, 2020 , 11:35 AM A plan to crisscross parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with earth-shaking machines that help map underground oil formations is drawin...