Articles for tag: Alaska, arctic ecosystems, biodiversity, Climate Change, cold-adapted species, Environmental Science, glacial life, ice worms, melting glaciers, mysterious creatures

Alaska's Ice Worms Are Melting Back Into Mystery

Alaska’s Ice Worms Are Melting Back Into Mystery

Gargi Chakravorty

Picture something straight out of a science fiction movie. On mountaintop glaciers of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, billions of tiny black worms are tunneling upward to the barren, icy surface. Measuring about a half-inch in length and thin as threads of dental floss, ice worms (Mesenchytraeus solifugus) dot glaciers throughout the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, ...

a deer eating some snow

Alaska Caribou Take a New Route

Suhail Ahmed

The first snow arrived late on the North Slope, and the caribou hesitated like travelers staring at a half-frozen river. Biologists watching collar pings saw the herds pause, veer, and then thread through valleys they rarely used a decade ago. Hunters noticed it too – footprints skirting new ice crusts, animals appearing days or even ...