Climate change in Alaska - Wikipedia Hog Butte Fire, Alaska, June 2022 Sign thanking firefighters, Deshka Landing Fire, 2019 In August 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that "[o]ver the past 60 years, most of the state has warmed three degrees (F) on average and six degrees during winter" [1] As a result of this temperature increase, the EPA noted that "Arctic sea ice is retreating, shores are eroding, glaciers
Alaska State Troopers - Wikipedia The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U S state of Alaska It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS) The AST is a full-service law enforcement agency that handles both traffic and criminal law enforcement
Haines, Alaska - Wikipedia Haines is the only town in Southeast Alaska to have been named after a woman [7] At the time, the boundary between Canada and the U S was disputed and vaguely defined There were overlapping land claims from the United States' purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 and British claims along the coast
Wildlife of Mali - Wikipedia The Niger River valley, which dominates the topography of Mali, drained by the Niger River and its tributaries Along its course, the central southern region is the narrowest and is known as the Inner Delta or the Inundation Zone of the Niger, formed of 38,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi) of flood-plains, along a river length of 570 kilometres (350 mi); these form its wetlands of great
Rat Islands - Wikipedia Map of Rat Islands showing major islands (line between Semisopochnoi Island and Amchitka Pass is the 180th meridian) Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Rat Islands on the right: Kiska Island (7), Little Kiska Island (8), Segula Island (9), Khvostof Island (10), Davidof Island (11), Little Sitkin Island (12), Hawadax Island (13), Amchitka Island (14), and Semisopochnoi Island (15)
List of mammals of Great Britain - Wikipedia This is a list of mammals of Great Britain The diversity of mammal fauna of Great Britain is somewhat impoverished compared to that of Continental Europe, due to the short period of time between the last ice age and the flooding of the land bridge between Great Britain and the rest of Europe
Nunivak Island - Wikipedia Nunivak Island (Central Alaskan Yup'ik: Nunivaaq; Nunivak Cup'ig: Nuniwar; Russian: Нунивак, romanized: Nunivak) is a permafrost-covered volcanic island lying about 30 miles (48 km) offshore from the delta of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in the US state of Alaska, at a latitude of about 60°N
Wildlife of Antarctica - Wikipedia Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are a keystone species, forming an important part of the Antarctic food web At least 235 marine species are found in both Antarctica and the Arctic, ranging in size from whales and birds to small marine snails, sea cucumbers, and mud-dwelling worms