December 2024 in Sitka was the warmest on record, with average temperatures of 42.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Those temperatures ...

By Rachel Cassandra The Arctic tundra shifted this past year from capturing carbon to releasing it, which means it’s now ...

“We had such a mild December,” said climate specialist Rick Thoman. “We only had four days below zero. So while it's not ...

Sharon Kay Thoman, 73, died peacefully at 1:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 16, at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital. She was born in East Liverpool, Ohio on Sept. 22, 1951. She grew up in the small village ...

“It’s not just that the Arctic is warming just like the rest of the world,” said Rich Thoman, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Because of these changes in the frozen ...

“Whether it’s extreme rain causing flooding, causing landslides, whether it’s extreme snowfall, whether it’s long-term permafrost thaw and riverbank erosion,” said Thoman. The Arctic, Thoman estimates ...