What's Changing
Alaska lives on “the melting edge” of global climate change. Temperatures in Alaska are increasing nearly twice as fast as global averages, changing everything from the timing of subsistence, to the stability of coastlines and buildings, to the ability to travel safely on what used to be frozen rivers and sea ice. Find out more about what’s changing and why.
What's Changing
Alaska lives on “the melting edge” of global climate change. Temperatures in Alaska are increasing nearly twice as fast as global averages, changing everything from the timing of subsistence, to the stability of coastlines and buildings, to the ability to travel safely on what used to be frozen rivers and sea ice. Find out more about what’s changing and why.
Featured Stories
Stories: Adapt Y-K
The Adapt Y-K Delta team will be having several opportunities the week of November 27th, 2018 in Anchorage to learn and participate in discussions about
Story: The Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Provides a Guide for Coastal Mapping Gaps and Priorities
Coastal Hazards Program in Alaska The State of Alaska Coastal Hazard’s Program is engaged in ongoing investigations that expand our understand of how the coastline
Story: State-federal-Local partnership on Kenai Peninsula works across boundaries to link local climate science and art to scenario and adaptation planning
The coastal communities on the Kenai Peninsula and within the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) are already coping with a variety of challenges related to
Story: Alaska’s Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs)
Alaska is home to five Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) working to address environmental changes occurring in the state that are too broad and far-reaching for any one agency or entity to address alone.
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ADAPT Alaska FACEBOOK POSTS
Check out our updated Adapt Alaska website. We have new stories, tools, a calendar of events, and a way to share your stories. Here is a story about monitoring coastal change in Alaska and link to a new publication from the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.
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Alaska lives on “the melting edge” of global climate change. Temperatures in Alaska are increasing nearly twice as fast as global averages, changing everything from the timing of subsistence, to t...Our inaugural edition of AAOKH News is available and coming soon to mailbox holders in AAOKH communities! Get a preview here: arctic-aok.org/2018/11/13/newsletter-fall-2018/
A push for sustainability from Norway's Arctic first people.
The Arctic's Sámi people push for a sustainable Norway
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After centuries on the margins, the Indigenous Sámi of the Arctic regions of Scandinavia are starting to reassert their cultural identity. And they say the world can't solve the climate crisis withou...Visualizing Climate Change
Workshop summaries, the Toolbox and Posters are available in PDF format for your convenience. Please download, print and share these files.
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Workshops
Below are a collection of PDFs of presentation from recent workshops.
Toolbox
Poster
Visualizing Climate Change
