Knowing Our Changing Home

Warm winter culture

May 11, 2026

Dogs mushing down a strip of snow in Anchorage.

Longstanding Alaskan traditions are being shaped by warming winters. 2025 was no exception.

Reading Rings: Subfossil Wood Reveals a Glacier’s Climate History

May 11, 2026

A scientist holds a piece of wood showing different growth rings.

In 2023, research ecologist Jeremy Litell, along with students and staff from the Juneau Icefield Research Program, skied miles across glaciers and ice ridges to follow up on a report of a five-needle pine tree dwelling in the gnarled, patchy, treeline, known as an alpine ecotone, that lined the Llewellyn Glacier.

In Alaska’s tundra desert, freshwater fish survival depends on a lesser-known — and thinning — permafrost feature

May 11, 2026

On the North Slope, all eyes are on aufeis.

Studying a Melting World: Seventy Years of Glacier Records Threatened

May 11, 2026

A team passes through a newly formed ice cave at Wolverine Glacier.

Changing routes, inaccessible weather stations and an uncertain future.

When it rains, it snows – precipitation changes across Alaska

May 11, 2026

A shoveler stands waist deep with a shovel over their head in a harbor.

The end of 2025 will remain fresh in Juneauʼs collective memory as historic amounts of snow fell across the town, blanketing rooftops, boats and roadways, disrupting everyday life and making national news.