Eight summers ago, a bolt of lightning struck a dry tundra hillside in northern Alaska. Fanned by a warm wind that curled over the Brooks Range, the.

It was a strange summer in Alaska indeed. July finished as the state’s hottest month ever recorded. And with erratic precipitation patterns, it was also the driest July on record. The hot, dry ...

Tundra swans fly over Western Alaska. (Photo by Craig Ely) Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska.

TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska — Ground here that for tens of thousands of years was frozen solid is terra firma no more. Across the tundra and coast of the Arctic Ocean, land is caving in. Soils loosed by ...

If you're a patch of frozen Arctic tundra, it might be the slogan for a real-life horror movie. Call it "Invasion of the Willow Dwarfs: Attack of the Living Forbs." But this is no pulp fiction ...

Biologists say early retreating sea ice is potentially causing vegetation productivity changes on the tundra across Alaska and the Arctic. Uma Bhatt, a climate variability expert with the ...

A gradual lengthening of the snow-free season in Alaska's tundra, and a corresponding northward progression of the growth of shrubs and trees, may be creating a cycle of warmer and longer summers ...

Alaska tundra shows surprising resilience after unprecedented fire. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 08 / 130830104258.htm ...

Despite the size and severity of the massive 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire on Alaska's North Slope, much of the arctic vegetation has recovered and the tundra is likely to return to its pre-fire ...

A gradual lengthening of the snow-free season in Alaska's tundra, and a corresponding northward progression of the growth of shrubs and trees, may be creating a cycle of warmer and longer summers ...

A wildfire that burned over 400 square miles of Alaska tundra in the scorching summer of 2007 poured as much carbon into the atmosphere as the entire Arctic normally absorbs each year, according ...