President Barack Obama will visit Alaska beginning Monday to press for urgent global action on climate change, with melting glaciers and rising seas as his backdrop.
Yet he'll have to carefully calibrate his message in a state heavily dependent on oil.
Obama will kick off the visit with a speech Monday to a conference on climate change and the Arctic. He also plans to meet with Alaska Natives and local fisherman.
The president will also hike to Exit Glacier in Seward to illustrate how glaciers are receding. Then he'll board a U.S. Coast Guard vessel to tour Kenai Fjords National Park.
Obama will close the trip by becoming the first sitting president to visit the Alaska Arctic when he travels to Kotzebue.