Sustainable North

From Yale Environment 360, Thursday, September 23, 2010: In late July, a group of Inuit hunters set off by boat along the west coast of Banks Island to search for Peary caribou, which inhabit the Arctic archipelago of Canada. Roger Kuptana, a 62-year-old Inuit who had grown up on the island, didn’t give his fellow [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, September 17, 2010: When Rich Boone looks at the future of Fairbanks, he can’t help but envision the canola fields outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. That’s because a projected warming trend in Alaska could eventually give the Interior the same climate characteristics that exist in that Canadian Midwestern agricultural city. Boone, [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, September 10, 2010: Art and science are not mutually exclusive disciplines and the artists and scientists behind “In a Time of Change: Envisioning the Future” are going to prove it. A project in two parts — a gallery exhibition and a stage performance — has the intention of changing [...]

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From The Associated Press, Thursday, August 12, 2010: Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It’s not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. [...]

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From CBC News, Tuesday, August 10, 2010: Landslides and low water levels in the Northwest Territories in the wake of record-breaking warmth have prompted calls for changes in infrastructure planning. “It’s really important that community decision-makers and government decision-makers are prepared to spend a little bit more to make sure that the design [of structures [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, August 1, 2o10: One hundred years ago, the growing season in Fairbanks was less than three months long. Last year, some local gardeners were still harvesting broccoli and cabbage in mid-September. Fairbanks is 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter and 11 percent drier than it was in the early 20th century, [...]

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From The Associated Press, Sunday, June 27, 2010: New transmission lines are critical to developing the alternative electricity production needed to meet demand in the coming years, governors of states in the West said Monday. The need for new energy development and dangers of climate change topped the agenda at the annual meeting of the [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, June 25, 2010: A long-running joke with my nieces, Allison and Lindsay, is that a mistake involving caribou is a “caribou-bou.”  Our caribou-bou is now clear.  We missed the massive migrations of the Western caribou herd in Alaska by two days. We’ve seen recent tracks everywhere, as well as [...]

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A UA Museum of the North Special Exhibit May 15, 2010 – January 8, 2011 This exhibition presents compelling, visual evidence of climate change in the North. By comparing early 20th Century photos with contemporary views from the same vantage points, visitors can see for themselves the nature and extent of changes to this remote [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, March 16, 2010: A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor is one of about 250 members of the U.S. National Academy of Science who have signed a well-publicized letter supporting climate-change science. The letter, published in the May 6 issue of the journal Science, defends climate science against “the recent [...]

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