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1 day ago · Alaska ( / əˈlæskə / ⓘ ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It is in the Western United States region. The only other non-contiguous U.S. state is Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost (the Aleutian Islands cross the antimeridian into the ...
4 days ago · The Juneau Ice Field, which sprawls across the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice a year between 2010 and 2020, the researchers estimated.
4 days ago · Alaska, constituent state of the United States of America. Admitted to the union as the 49th state on January 3, 1959, it lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent. The Alaska Peninsula is the Western Hemisphere’s largest peninsula, and Alaska’s Denali is North America’s highest peak.
The low-lying interior basin region between the Alaska Range in the north and the Chugach–Wrangell–St. Elias mountains to the south and east enjoys a relatively temperate climate. The valleys of the Susitna and Matanuska rivers, Cook Inlet, and the Kenai Peninsula are where the majority of Alaskans live.- Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- Boreal forest (taiga) in early autumn, with white spruce, birch, and low shrubs, near the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, east-central Alaska.
- Musk oxen in the snow, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Alaska, U.S.
- Downtown Juneau, Alaska, U.S.
- Harbour at Kodiak, Alaska.
22 hours ago · Alaska's top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point. by Bethan Davies, The Conversation. Credit: CC0 Public Domain. The melting of one of North America's largest icefields ...
1 day ago · The new research, published in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications, found that rates of glacier area shrinkage were five times faster from 2015-2019 than they had been from ...
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4 days ago · Alaska climatologist Brian Brettschneider, who was not part of the study, said the acceleration is most concerning, warning of “a death spiral” for the thinning icefield. An icefield is a collection of glaciers, while an ice sheet is something continent-wide and only two of those remain, in Greenland and Antarctica.
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3 days ago · [Sign up for Alaska Public Media’s daily newsletter to get our top stories delivered to your inbox.] This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Dan Bross: Yeah, very windy ...
