Climate Change

The Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference, also called WAISC, will run April 7-9 at Bethel’s cultural center.

Researchers found that over the past 27 years, landfast ice in Alaska's Arctic has been forming later, breaking up earlier, and hasn't been reaching as far offshore.

On March 21, a team of researchers left Bethel on a snowmachine expedition across the western and northern coasts of Alaska.

Researchers from the University of Alaska Anchorage are combining machine learning and community feedback to understand the ties between income and transportation accessibility in the regional hub.

The tribal government in Kipnuk, one of the communities hardest hit by the October 2025 storm, is exploring sentiment and options for relocation to safer ground.

For the past 20 years, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card has documented changes in the region, which continues to warm faster than the rest of the globe.

The sudden withholding of federal funds poses an existential threat to projects that have been in the works for years in communities across the U.S.

The Trump administration has pulled more than $2.7 billion in climate grants, hitting vulnerable communities the hardest.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

After years of assessments, a major step forward in riverbank stabilization for the Kuskokwim Delta coastal community has been derailed by wide-ranging cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.