Heathy meadows and freshwater streams are necessary for the Tlinglit community to secure their traditional foods. Photo credit: Elizabeth Figus. Freshwater stream in Kake. Photo by Elizabeth Figus. Us ...

Scores of visitors are usually present at the historic Kake cannery building during the summer tourist season, but the area was quiet in 2020. The Kake Cannery, a National Historic Landmark, documents ...

Map created by the Organized Village of Kake. Click the map for a larger view. Map courtesy of Organized Village of Kake. Used with permission. Last modified : . 21 June 2021 - 10:41am. ...

Summary: Residents of a rural Alaska village are studying their environment to understand and protect their food. Their research partnership hires and trains students and local residents to contribute to high-quality research...and builds the capacity of the local workforce.

Greenhouse gases and aerosol pollution emitted by human activities are responsible for increases in the frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts around the world, according to a recently published study.

A newly published study draws on a reanalysis project supported by NOAA’s Climate Program Office. Recently published in Nature Scientific Data, the study creates a new database of reconstructions for past global storm surges—one of the deadliest coastal hazards.

The dynamics that lift smoke from large wildfires into the upper atmosphere could potentially be employed one day to help temporarily cool the planet, based on the findings of a modeling study led by NOAA scientists.

Shipping containers offloaded from cargo ships in Savannah, Georgia, are loaded onto trucks for distribution across the nation. Source : . Wikimedia Commons. Port of Savannah. Photo: Kci ...

In November 2020, heavy rains associated with Hurricane Eta led to flooding that took out the Liberty Hill Road Bridge in North Carolina. Source : Flickr . Liberty Hill Rd Bridg ...

pg . Aedes aegypti is one species of mosquito that can spread diseases. Source : . Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL 1.2 ( via Wikimedia Commons. Page/ ...