"There is this nonlinear acceleration in coastal impacts that we should be expecting will happen in places like Northern Alaska ... affecting Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain, but a key takeaway ...

A few snow drifts remain on June 18, 2004, on the Arctic coastal plain of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska ... and overall, Arctic snowmelt is occurring one or two weeks earlier than ...

FILE - The snow-covered coastal plain area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is seen, with the Brooks Range at right, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, near Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson ...