The five documented landslides may be associated with high rainfall between July and September.
Alatna and Koyukuk River water level rise in three days raising concerns for transportation, and community is on emergency flood watch.
Intense rainfall in Cheonan, South Korea, causes significant erosion of a local river park road.
Observations and research across Alaska indicate shifting berry ripening times and unpredictable yields, with climate change as a key factor affecting these important subsistence and cultural resources.
Alaska experiences unusual weather with multiple false springs, marked by warm periods followed by heavy snow or cold, casting doubt on the arrival of summer.
The unseasonably warm and wet conditions thought to be factor in amphibian sighting.
Workers are using sargassum and sand to rebuild the beach, with shore retention and reef protection in mind.
Big snow falls, warm temperatures, and strong winds covers snow surface with a variety of seeds from trees.
Above normal temperatures in the month of November followed by a series of storms makes varying ice conditions.
Erratic temperatures led to the absence of tomcods, severely affecting local fishing.
Western red cedars in South Langley, BC are dying, with browning starting at the tops during summer and progressing downward until the trees are completely dead.
Water floods the Kotzebue lagoon. Grasses can be seen in July and a month later in August the water has risen 4-6 ft.
The rain in July has been persistent and in some cases intense. At Cheney Lake there is plenty of evidence about the wet summer.
Factors like reduced summer precipitation, extreme heat events, and ponderosa pine's superior drought resilience highlight the need to adapt reforestation practices to species more suited to changing environmental conditions.
“We spent the weekend outdoors camping on the peninsula and notices shoreline grasses has dried and shriveled.”
Kotzebue experienced one blizzard after another in March, and now with so much piled up and drifted snow, the community is struggling to dig out.
"I was born and raised in Kotzebue and have been through many storms. This was one of the worst."
"In our country Afghanistan I have observed that the level of water is decreasing day by day."
This winter is the snowiest on Donner Summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains since reliable snow measurement began in 1971.
It has been some years since we have had a long storm. March 6 marks the 3rd day and there have been no jets or small planes flying.
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