Record rains in Interior Alaska overwhelmed culverts and flooded the Dalton Highway near the Yukon River, closing the road between mileposts 112 and 156. Crews are responding, but there is no reopening estimate.

Transportation engineers moved the road to avoid a giant mass of frozen debris sliding downhill.

Hot, dry weather over the northern Interior is keeping wildfire season alive longer than normal.

Moose and other species have advanced north with warming temperatures. University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor of water and environmental research Ken Tape said movement of boreal species into far northern Alaska has corresponded over the last century with earlier snow-melt and river ice out.

It’s a vicious cycle: As the weather warms, the Earth’s permafrost is melting, releasing greenhouse gases that are going to make the planet even hotter.

Spirit camp participants and residents along the Yukon River were shocked to see a lone beluga whale on the Yukon River in early August.