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'We Fear for Our Children:' Alaska Natives Speak out in Climate Change Report

December 11, 2019

For the first time, NOAA's annual report on the devastating effects of climate change in the Arctic is highlighting the unsettling changes to the lives of the people who live there. Kevin Wood is quoted. 

Link: 'We Fear for Our Children:' Alaska Natives Speak out in Climate Change Report

Weather Time Machine

December 11, 2019

Old ships' logs are giving scientists new insights into the past and future of the earth's changing climate. Kevin Wood is featured. 

Link: Weather Time Machine

Icebound: The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship's logs

December 11, 2019

An eccentric group of citizen-scientists called Old Weather has transcribed millions of observations from long-forgotten logbooks of ships, many from the great era of Arctic exploration. As the polar regions grow ever warmer, the volunteers have amassed a rich repository of climate data in a 21st century rescue mission. Kevin Wood is featured. 

Link: Icebound: The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship's logs

"The world from our childhood is no longer here": Report details drastic changes as Arctic warms

December 10, 2019

The Arctic is increasingly at risk as temperatures warm and sea ice melts away, NOAA warns in its annual report card on the state of this crucial ecosystem. At the end of a very dense, very lengthy report loaded with scores of scientific stats, the seemingly abstract science of climate change collides with the sober... more

Link: "The world from our childhood is no longer here": Report details drastic changes as Arctic warms

Saildrones return from the Arctic after milestone research mission

November 22, 2019

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - After covering more than 36,000 nautical miles and going where no drones have gone before, a fleet of five research saildrones has returned to shore in Dutch Harbor, while one wayward machine was recovered in Utqiagvik. Chris Meinig is featured. 

Link: Saildrones return from the Arctic after milestone research mission

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