The 2025-2026 snow season in the Western United States has been a literal hot mess (FIG.1). News sources have run countless, increasingly dire, stories on the snowpack. Ski resorts have opened, paused operations, reopened, and closed early. As we speed through spring,...
Photos by POW Science Alliance member Dr. Ali Banwell At the bottom of the world, a scientist is trying to answer one of the most consequential questions of our time: how long can Antarctica’s ice hold on? POW Science Alliance member Dr. Ali Banwell, a Research...
Photos by POW Creative Alliance member Jayme Dittmar It’s a frigid morning at Toolik Field Station on Alaska’s North Slope. Hoarfrost glitters across the snow surface, and the low sun paints the tundra in soft watercolor hues. My breath clouds the air as we load up...
Photo by Paul “Wolfe” Wilson The federal government opened the first of five new lease sales in Alaska’s Western Arctic on March 18th. President Warren Harding signed an executive order in 1923 setting aside a vast swath of Alaska’s North Slope as...
Photo by POW Creative Alliance member Sara Robbins Today’s breaking news that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repealed the Endangerment Finding marks a dangerous new low for the agency and a stark indicator of its loss of direction at a moment when...
