Washington, Oct 13: A University of Alaska, Fairbanks, study has said that the shrinking of water bodies in Alaska is making that state warmer and dryer.
The League of Conservation Voters says Alaska's Republican congressional delegation ranks low in their annual congressional scorecard. The League is a political group whose board of directors is made up primarily of top executives from major environmental groups.
The national conservation group Defenders of Wildlife say two Alaska refuges have been placed on its list of the ten "most endangered" by global warming. It listed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
A first-of-its kind analysis of fifty years of remotely sensed imagery from the 1950s to 2002 shows a dramatic reduction in the size and number of more than 10,000 ponds in Alaska. The analysis, by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists and published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that these landscape-level changes in arctic ponds are associated with recent climate
The national conservation group Defenders of Wildlife say two Alaska refuges have been placed on its list of the ten "most endangered" by global warming.
WASHINGTON–Alaska’s Republican congressional delegation received one of the lowest average rankings in the nation from the League of Conservation Voters in its annual congressional scorecard released Tuesday.
Marshes at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge could shrink and fish suffocate in more harmful algae blooms, as global temperatures rise, said an environmental group that listed the refuge among the 10 most at-risk in America.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Wildlife habitat is literally melting away in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according a new report released by Defenders of Wildlife.
Rising sea levels caused by global warming could inundate much of Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge , according to a new report released today by Defenders of Wildlife.
