Today’s Dakota Digest comes to us from the North Slope of Alaska. It’s a place feeling the direct effects of climate change. In June SDPB’s Charles Michael Ray spent two weeks above the arctic circle at the Toolik (TOO-lick) Field station. It’s the National Science Foundation's largest arctic research facility and it’s home to about 100 scientists. Many of them are studying the impacts of global warming. Researchers are now becoming concerned about a possible connection between an increase in arctic thunderstorms, the melting of permafrost, and a subsequent release of more greenhouse gasses. SDPB’s Charles Michael Ray followed the researchers for this story. He made the journey to the Arctic Circle on the Logan Science Journalism Fellowship through the National Science Foundation and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. He will be following up with a series of stories this summer that relate the research in Alaska to what might happen in the lower 48 as climate change progresses.
Today’s Dakota Digest comes to us from the North Slope of Alaska. It’s a place feeling the direct effects of climate change.
In June SDPB’s Charles Michael Ray spent two weeks above the arctic circle at the Toolik (TOO-lick) Field station. It’s the National Science Foundation's largest arctic research facility and it’s home to about 100 scientists. Many of them are studying the impacts of global warming.
Researchers are now becoming concerned about a possible connection between an increase in arctic thunderstorms, the melting of permafrost, and a subsequent release of more greenhouse gasses.
SDPB’s Charles Michael Ray followed the researchers for this story.
He made the journey to the Arctic Circle on the Logan Science Journalism Fellowship through the National Science Foundation and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. He will be following up with a series of stories this summer that relate the research in Alaska to what might happen in the lower 48 as climate change progresses.