The 20th edition of the Arctic Report Card, published this week, continues to serve as a record of persistent and extraordinary warming in the North. As has been the case…
An 8-month-old was the youngest attendee at the International Arctic Research Center (ACCAP’s host organization) annual retreat this year. While colleagues lined up to strategize IARC’s future, they took turns…
This story originally appeared in The Conversation. Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm surge that flooded villages as…
The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report this week, providing a comprehensive overview of global conditions in 2024. Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness scientists and…
Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food webs as northern oceans warm and lose sea ice. The findings…
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy is now the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness. The single word shift from policy to preparedness better represents the work…
ACCAP launched a new podcast this week exploring the life and career of Rick Thoman, from tracking the weather on his bedroom wall as a child to becoming Alaska’s trusted…
ACCAP’s partners at the Alaska Fire Science Consortium released an updated report highlighting recent wildfire trends in Alaska, their impacts to humans and wildlife, and how science can improve wildfire…
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 Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy released a new report this week highlighting environmental changes and extremes that impact Alaskans and their livelihoods. “Alaska’s Changing Environment” provides people with timely,…
