As temperatures rise on the Kenai Peninsula, freshwater quality is expected to change — affecting both salmon and humans, new research suggests.

The impacts stretched across every state, including Alaska and Hawaii. Around the same time, Esri launched an overhaul of its Drought Aware map (we wrote about the previous iteration last year).

We didn't have that for Alaska," says Witharana ... or slow-onset hazards like droughts, permafrost thaw in this case, we need to understand the potential harm these events pose," says Manos.