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Scientists confirm climate change is making destructive landslides more frequent across Alaska — especially in Southeast

Climate change is making atmospheric rivers more extreme and researchers have traced a 295% increase in landslides reported in the news between the 1980s

https://www.ktoo.org/2026/01/28/scientists-confirm-climate-change-is-making-destructive-landslides-more-frequent-across-alaska-especially-in-southeast/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

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Just a Fairbanks winter sunrise.

#Alaska #sunrise #fairbanks

Winter sunrise over a snow-covered spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. Tall black spruce trees stand across a flat, snowy landscape, their branches heavily coated in fresh snow. The low sun sits just below the horizon, casting warm orange and yellow light through gaps in the trees. The sky above is layered with soft clouds tinted pink, peach, and pale blue, contrasting with the dark silhouettes of the spruce. The foreground is a smooth expanse of snow with low shrubs partially buried beneath it.

ALT

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2y

A photo taken September 2013 while on a float down Beaver Creek, north of the White Mountains in central #alaska with a quote from author Barry Lopez.
#nature #ecosystems #ClimateChange #CultureChange

A fall photo along Beaver Creek in Alaska. Blue sky with a few wispy cirrus clouds, rolling hills in autumn colors, forested area along the creek, and reflections of the above in a slough in the foreground, with the text - “Crudely put, it is that we can no longer afford to carry on in a prolonged era of polite reflection and ineffective resistance. An Era of Emergencies is bearing down on us. We must now consider, for example, how to organize the last industrial extractions of oil, fresh water, natural gas, timber, metallic ores, and fish in order to ensure our own survival; and we must consider, of course, what comes after that. We must reckon with the Sixth Extinction, which will remove, for example, many of our pollinators and one day, probably, many of us.
We must invent overnight, figuratively speaking, another kind of civilization, one more cognizant of limits, less greedy, more compassionate, less bigoted, more inclusive, less exploitive.” - Barry Lopez

ALT

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5d

#USA

Alors que la sécurité de l’Arctique obsède Donald Trump, l'#Alaska fait face au péril climatique. Une partie de la côte habitée est à une tempête près d’être engloutie par les eaux. En octobre dernier déjà, un typhon y a balayé deux villages. Mais Washington, en froid avec la science, a congédié une bonne partie des météorologues à son service. Ceci est le deuxième texte d’une série de trois sur la première année de l’administration Trump vue de l'Arctique américain
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/15199/alaska-changements-climatiques-typhon-destruction-trump

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6d

#Trump #Greenland #Alaska #Humor #Alt

I’m just saying.
They could take him
to Alaska, tell him itis
Greenland, and say it is now
part of America, and it would
solve a lot of rigmarole.
You could even add a ribbon
cutting for good measure
and give him a little trophy.
threads.com/@the.caterpillar.project

ALT

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122d

My 2026 Alaska Wall Calendar is here!
Glaciers, aurora, wildlife, and landscapes from across Alaska — 14 of my favorite images from the past few years.

You can preview all the photos and order prints on my site:
https://www.lwpetersen.com/featured/2026-alaska-wall-calendar/

Or order the calendar directly here:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/lee-petersen/2026-alaska-wall-calendar/paperback/product-p65mr98.html?page=1&pageSize=4

#Alaska #photography #aurora #glacier #wildlife

A late-season storm left spruce trees along the Summit Trail blanketed in snow, with Wickersham Dome rising in the background of the White Mountain National Recreation Area

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8d

Yeeeeeeah. Turns out the aurora is pretty good tonight, too. I took quite a few photos and some time-lapse footage, too. Might take me a while to get through all of it. I've decided to turn in for the night (and warm up after 3 hours wandering trails in the Goldstream Valley).

More of my Recent Photos here: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Recent-Photos

#alaska #auroraborealis #northernlights

Bright green aurora borealis fills the night sky above a snow-covered spruce forest. Broad, flowing aurora curtains arc overhead, with brighter bands twisting and overlapping against a dark, star-filled sky. The trees below are coated in snow and silhouetted against the glowing green light, with uneven drifts visible in the foreground.

ALT

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