The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape. While most Alaska tundra fires are south of the Brooks Range, in Northwest or Western Alaska, fires north of the Brooks Range are becoming more common and bigger, according to scientists.

Unusual Stellar sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) sighting in Utqiaġvik.

New research shows that permafrost soils hold massive quantities of mercury — nearly twice as much as is held in all other soils in the world, plus the mercury in the oceans and the atmosphere —

Snow is melting sooner and coming in later on the North Slope, and that, in turn, is having an affect on other ecological variables.

Climate-induced habitat changes on Alaska's North Slope such as coastal erosion and permafrost thaw have produced more food for migrating brant, a study says.

11-11-13 Weather effects caribou migration and season - Barrow, Alaska, USA

Residents were amazed to see lightning actually arching down to the ground.