Is technology enabling Alaska wilderness welfare cheats?
As the ease of communications creeps ever deeper into the wilds of Alaska, discussions about lives risked and money spent
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Author: Alaska Dispatch News
Film examines legacy of 1950s nuclear project in Arctic Alaska
Much has been written about Project Chariot, the 1950s-era program that contemplated using nuclear bombs to create a deep-water harbor
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Shell Oil’s first Arctic ‘drilling season’ a tepid success at best
Believing the U.S. Arctic Ocean contains one of the world’s richest undiscovered oil and gas plays, Royal Dutch Shell is
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Shifts in Arctic wind could lead to greater ice loss, affect southern weather
When Arctic sea ice dipped to a new record low earlier this year, scientists began to look harder than ever
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How many polar bears live in the Arctic?
The problem with gathering an accurate census on polar bears is that the apex predators wander far and wide in
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Discovering — and dining on — the mummies of the Far North
It seems there is a constant stream of well-preserved mummies coming out of Russia’s far north these days. Just weeks
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Tale of two ice caps: Arctic and Antarctic ice break records
Even as Arctic sea ice shattered record lows earlier this year, on the other side of the globe, Antarctic ice
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Scientists seeing fewer sick seals, walrus, polar bears in Arctic Alaska
The mysteries behind what made Alaska seals and walrus sick last year and caused bald spots on polar bears this
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Foraging for Alaska’s wild plants
How many folks think of food when they see a patch of devil’s club, or a cup of tea when
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What Arctic ice scarcity means for walruses of Alaska
As they have for the past few years in what’s become a fall tradition in Northwest Alaska, walrus have begun
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Loners no more? Prince William Sound humpbacks pairing up in Alaska
New research out of Alaska’s Prince William Sound shows humpback whales might not be the loners, or the ladies men,
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Eye on the Arctic news round-up
A round-up of stories that made headlines across the North this week. Canada Two federal politicians ask for an emergency
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Arctic Ocean vs. ANWR: Is wildlife refuge last hope for polar bears?
KAKTOVIK, Alaska — After a whaling crew landed a 44-foot bowhead earlier this month, the village’s first of the year,
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Arctic Ocean vs. ANWR: A hard-earned quest to drill in the icy abyss
This is the third of a four-part series detailing how the United States decided to allow offshore oil drilling in
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South Korea making bold moves in Arctic resource race
As the arctic warms, competition for northern resources has pushed likely players into action– Russia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Canada
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