The Alaska we experience today and our children will experience in the future is not the Alaska of the past.
The Alaska we experience today and our children will experience in the future is not the Alaska of the past.
According to the 2024 Arctic Report Card, released this week by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and co-authored by ten University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists, warming is affecting caribou populations, heat-trapping gas releases and many other parts of the ecosystem.
This year is on track to be the world’s hottest year. And for the 11th year in a row, the Arctic warmed more than the global average. Though temperatures in Alaska did not set records in 2024, it was still among the top 10 hottest years for the state.
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Caribou graze in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo Credit: Alexis Bonogofsky, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
