Climate Change - The Alaska Response Climate change is considered any systematic change in the long-term statistics describing the climate system that is sustained over several

... Alaska is ground zero for global climate change, having experienced an annual ... every region of Alaska. It is changing our natural landscape, ways of life,

... in the western Arctic, is likely to change this region substantially in the

Tom Gaylord's glacier photos tell a story, in pictures, about Alaska's beautiful but dwindling glaciers. These photos, along with a brief in-flight helicopter movie, were taken in June 2006. The rapid retreat of glaciers throughout the world is an undeniab

... Transcript INTRO: Evidence of a warmer climate seems to be everywhere these days. Warmer temperatures, changing vegetation, and melting permafrost are some of the signs of a changing climate. Now scientists say Alaska's

It's a place you won't forget. You stand on a wide ribbon of ice, a white tongue that laps the mountains to the north and south. The surface that from a distance seemed smooth as a dance floor reveals itself to be violently broken, creviced, torn. The colo

Less than 10 minutes after lifting off from the airport, the helicopter entered the frozen world suspended above Alaska's capital. Snowcapped mountains rose on either side as the small team of scientists and students peered down at a jagged blue carpet of