LEO Network - Search Resultshttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net2024-03-29T15:05:53Zhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/Images/logo.pnguuid:C8742031-12A4-4F31-BBB1-3AC8EA149158Monitoring underway at N.W.T. archaeological sites threatened by climate change 2024-01-07T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada</h3><p>January 7, 2024</p><p>As the impacts of climate change threaten vital historical sites across the Northwest Territories, the territory's climate change archaeologist is working with communities to mitigate the damage.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/A20B9C41-6562-4547-9367-695EC8C7AA0B'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/C8742031-12A4-4F31-BBB1-3AC8EA149158'>Read more...</a></p></div>69.44472 -133.03422uuid:4EB62FEB-D468-417F-B6E5-4E462345D57FDozens of Newtok students attend classes in a school that’s coming apart2023-12-13T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Newtok, Alaska, United States</h3><p>December 13, 2023</p><p>Rapid erosion and permafrost degradation mean school district officials are in a race to shore up the building for the remainder of the school year.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/4D345ED6-C5DC-4D9A-8F0D-EA96F85FDF97'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/4EB62FEB-D468-417F-B6E5-4E462345D57F'>Read more...</a></p></div>60.94108 -164.64111uuid:6E7371C4-76C9-4FF8-AA0D-C2BBC598D625Little Diomede city building slides off its foundation, leaving community vulnerable for more damage2023-11-28T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Diomede, Alaska, United States</h3><p>November 28, 2023</p><p>A city building in Little Diomede, Alaska, slid off its foundation, threatening the structural integrity of adjacent buildings and critical services, with the community seeking immediate assistance.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/3AFAC49E-5D1A-4A8F-B20E-9C6C95D3341B'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/6E7371C4-76C9-4FF8-AA0D-C2BBC598D625'>Read more...</a></p></div>65.7581 -168.952uuid:2D3F8866-55D8-40B0-B85C-48B970FBB97DStorm erodes shoreline at Shishmaref 2023-11-25T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Nome, Alaska, United States</h3><p>November 25, 2023</p><p>A storm caused shoreline erosion in Shishmaref, Alaska, but no evacuations were needed as the new seawall held and damage was minimal.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/1C5E2DEA-C1E5-4F40-A59C-59AE00D8D5C6'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/2D3F8866-55D8-40B0-B85C-48B970FBB97D'>Read more...</a></p></div>64.50111 -165.40639uuid:B28C5D9B-3CE8-4BE5-9F90-481C5FFE422BStorm erodes shoreline at Shishmaref 2023-11-25T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Shishmaref, Alaska, United States</h3><p>November 25, 2023</p><p>High winds that pushed water high up on south facing shores of the Seward Peninsula cause shoreline erosion on the Chukchi Sea coast of Shishmaref, last week. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/F725EF18-594A-4888-BE34-AF17849EFA3E'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/B28C5D9B-3CE8-4BE5-9F90-481C5FFE422B'>Read more...</a></p></div>66.25667 -166.07194uuid:7D126655-0213-439A-96FD-34A1A74A64BELater frosts could make new crops possible in Alaska, but climate change brings challenges, too2023-10-25T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Fairbanks, Alaska, United States</h3><p>October 25, 2023</p><p>Shifting seasons and hotter temperatures could allow Alaska farmers to grow more abundant and diverse produce. But climate change can also bring drought, pests and permafrost thaw. Human-caused climate change is bringing longer and warmer growing seasons, but also pests and unstable weather.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/4218D92A-7749-4EAB-874C-880804F350E5'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/7D126655-0213-439A-96FD-34A1A74A64BE'>Read more...</a></p></div>64.83778 -147.71639uuid:633DE7D7-A79F-4F06-B085-F58D6A53C7F2Permafrost slump near Alaska Highway in Yukon eats up 13 more metres of land2023-09-27T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada</h3><p>September 27, 2023</p><p>The slump is so close to the Alaska Highway, the Yukon government is moving the road, creating a new section that will help protect the only year-round road linking parts of the Yukon, and the U.S. state of Alaska, to the rest of the continent. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/D9DE07B4-CD33-41DE-989B-5622D535C886'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/633DE7D7-A79F-4F06-B085-F58D6A53C7F2'>Read more...</a></p></div>60.8623007102006 -135.376281738281uuid:176B3947-052E-48ED-B3C6-02EA55F2DED6A year after the Merbok Storm: Impacts on Cemetery 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>St. Michael, Alaska, United States</h3><p>September 22, 2023</p><p>The Merbok storm of 2022 impacted the Old Russian Cemetery in Saint Michael. This cemetery was created in the 1830s when the northernmost outpost of the Russian American Company was established in that village. People were interred in that cemetery for about 100 years. The cemetery is on a 30 foot high bluff overlooking the bay.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/DFCBAF6D-2371-4278-B41D-74307A55E911'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/176B3947-052E-48ED-B3C6-02EA55F2DED6'>Read more...</a></p></div>63.47806 -162.03917uuid:C30504C5-E24B-4268-979D-E99A227E6DE5Protecting roads and water infrastructure from erosion 2023-09-14T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Huslia, Alaska, United States</h3><p>September 14, 2023</p><p>River erosion is impacting the road and requiring the replacement of health infrastructure.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/5F738F06-45F7-4818-B974-D6B0322764D4'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/C30504C5-E24B-4268-979D-E99A227E6DE5'>Read more...</a></p></div>65.700686 -156.395345uuid:4C14DA8E-A1CB-4C9C-8F00-4FBBD1AA10B6DOT to evaluate cracks on Kivalina evacuation road2023-08-17T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Kivalina, Alaska, United States</h3><p>August 17, 2023</p><p>Kivalina residents report cracks on the sides of the recently built evacuation road which connects the village to the storm refuge site and the school. The team with the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities plans to visit the village and assess the damages at the end of August.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/DDA9F7E3-070D-43B7-9C79-FAC0A7E91F87'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/4C14DA8E-A1CB-4C9C-8F00-4FBBD1AA10B6'>Read more...</a></p></div>67.72694 -164.53333uuid:6A61C0E4-1620-4631-AE45-A3628023B625July was Utqiaġvik’s warmest month in the past century2023-08-10T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States</h3><p>August 10, 2023</p><p>The average temperature in July was 48.4 degrees — 6.7 degrees above normal, with 11 hot days in a row. Such extreme warmth can accelerate the greening and permafrost thaw on the North Slope.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/1E0F98AB-FC5A-4E37-B199-F5F286036FB1'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/6A61C0E4-1620-4631-AE45-A3628023B625'>Read more...</a></p></div>71.29058 -156.78872uuid:966C40FC-05E7-4F54-9F91-91BC59ECEFDDHuge landslide misses Swiss mountain village of Brienz ‘by a hair’2023-06-16T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Brienz, Bern, Switzerland</h3><p>June 16, 2023</p><p>Rockfall buries access road but stops just in front of hamlet, which had been evacuated in anticipation.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/4B2F4058-4E9F-4B06-9D51-E765B35753C3'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/966C40FC-05E7-4F54-9F91-91BC59ECEFDD'>Read more...</a></p></div>46.7545 8.03847uuid:C118B20B-C8C3-41F0-A200-97E84303F5A8Erosion Impacting Vegetation and Roads2023-05-22T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Noatak, Alaska, United States</h3><p>May 22, 2023</p><p>This post is an update on the river erosion situation in Noatak, where a new channel is being cut by the Noatak River. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/78EDCFE5-65B4-436E-A320-2360A1434FE4'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/C118B20B-C8C3-41F0-A200-97E84303F5A8'>Read more...</a></p></div>67.5600833888889 -162.975115777778uuid:A477A5A1-5EA2-44DD-B293-96248B0D750ALegacy industrial contamination in the Arctic permafrost: When permafrost thaws, the Arctic could face massive problems from legacy industrial contamination and pollutants2023-04-04T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3></h3><p>April 4, 2023</p><p>A previously underestimated risk lurks in the frozen soil of the Arctic. When the ground thaws and becomes unstable in response to climate change, it can lead to the collapse of industrial infrastructure, and in turn to the increased release of pollutants. Moreover, contaminations already present will be able to more easily spread throughout ecosystems. According to new findings, there are at least 13,000 to 20,000 contaminated sites in the Arctic that could pose a serious risk in the future.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/751A12E7-E594-49BD-8ECF-893353E638CF'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/A477A5A1-5EA2-44DD-B293-96248B0D750A'>Read more...</a></p></div>uuid:92415617-50FD-44F0-8964-6E23DF7F6B04Sinking in2023-02-16T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada</h3><p>February 16, 2023</p><p>The community of Aklavik, N.W.T., persevered when devastating floods led the government to attempt to relocate it. Now it faces another existential crisis as climate change thaws the permafrost, forever changing the community’s landscape and wildlife.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/ED50B942-003C-49FB-9C11-A419776FFD0E'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/92415617-50FD-44F0-8964-6E23DF7F6B04'>Read more...</a></p></div>68.21913 -135.01071uuid:1B72A509-EF83-444B-B165-DC9AC1296897Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange2022-12-31T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Brooks Range, Alaska, United States</h3><p>December 31, 2022</p><p>Increase in sediments such as iron could change quality of water sources for local communities such as Kobuk and Kivalina. The impact on animals and plants are unknown and researchers are aware of potential changes in the food web in the future. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/73000FBD-7FF2-481B-8020-07EE524E91FC'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/1B72A509-EF83-444B-B165-DC9AC1296897'>Read more...</a></p></div>69.3493386397765 -158.026760118705uuid:C0815162-524C-4768-8ECC-11D40F90B06CThawing causing cemetery to sink2022-10-28T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Noatak, Alaska, United States</h3><p>October 28, 2022</p><p>Permafrost thaw in Noatak is causing the condition of the grave site to degrade. A trench has formed and crosses are tipping over. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/2CA39D1E-A820-45FA-BB78-0C8ED64F4B01'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/C0815162-524C-4768-8ECC-11D40F90B06C'>Read more...</a></p></div>67.57111 -162.96528uuid:0131ECA6-CCD5-403D-B05D-68CBFCEC842EAfter September storm, Newtok residents are desperate to relocate2022-10-07T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Newtok, Alaska, United States</h3><p>October 7, 2022</p><p>Melting permafrost and severe erosion have plagued the community for decades. The most recent storm brought waves so fierce, the water claimed roughly half of the 80 or so remaining feet of land that stands between the back end of the school and the edge of the Ningliq river.</p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/C468D976-6622-4951-8374-80B5F3F4808E'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/0131ECA6-CCD5-403D-B05D-68CBFCEC842E'>Read more...</a></p></div>60.94108 -164.64111uuid:20E3D6C3-2559-41C8-9BED-D9791C8AA440Slide buries highway, strands residents2022-10-06T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Haines, Alaska, United States</h3><p>October 6, 2022</p><p>Two heavy rainstorms caused flooding and landslides in the upper valley last week, damaging infrastructure and leaving two residents temporarily trapped in their vehicle. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/84BD7980-CAAA-4FB1-B42A-665410132A1D'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/20E3D6C3-2559-41C8-9BED-D9791C8AA440'>Read more...</a></p></div>59.23595 -135.44533uuid:A0430845-ACB1-4C8C-967E-063FD598C0EFSevere Erosion in Newtok2022-09-30T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T15:05:53ZLEO Networkhttps://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.netask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Newtok, Alaska, United States</h3><p>September 30, 2022</p><p>A site visit to Newtok on September 30, shows severe erosion from impacts of storm (typhoon Merbok). The images show both severe permafrost melt and river erosion. </p><img src='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/en/attachments/thumbnail/95D8D2B2-7E3D-4626-974D-BA4B854DD0BB'/><p><a href='https://leonetwork-staging.azurewebsites.net/posts/show/A0430845-ACB1-4C8C-967E-063FD598C0EF'>Read more...</a></p></div>60.94108 -164.64111