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Author: Alaska Dispatch News

Society Society (USA) USA 

Tragic wave of suicides batter remote Alaska villages

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 14:38
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What local health care officials are calling a rare wave of suicides has left several Southwest Alaska villages reeling in

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Flooding threat wanes across Alaska

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 15:55
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Outsized fears of flooding prompted by winter’s epic snowfall across much of Alaska have given way to relief in many

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Society Society (USA) USA 

Historic deal provides veterans health care in Alaska bush

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, May 7, 2012 at 15:35
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Veterans health care will come to rural Alaska thanks to an unprecedented accord between the Department of Veterans Affairs and

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Is warming climate producing bigger storms?

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, May 7, 2012 at 13:19
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Has the home planet’s pot begun to boil? Is there turbulence awaiting us in the decades ahead? The energy so

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland glaciers debunk worst-case sea level scenarios

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 20:20
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Like so much of climate science, the latest insight from the frozen world of Greenland offers one of those good

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Humpbacks free themselves of fishing gear in Southeast Alaska

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 16:31
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A pair of humpback whales entangled in fishing gear in Southeast Alaska managed to elude a team of scientists trying

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Wind power fuels renewable-energy revolution in rural Alaska

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 14:33
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Alaska’s alternative energy revolution will take a new twist this summer when 15 turbines spin to life over a trio

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A story looking at the complexity of polar bear hair and what that knowledge could contribute to design were among your most read stories this week. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Polar bear moms, some cubs swim long distances: study

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 21:11
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Scientists have long known that polar bears can swim marathon distances, but a new study finds their aquatic endurance better

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Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Military buildup in Arctic linked to climate change: report

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 15:38
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Is the Arctic being militarized? As nations and corporations look north to unlock natural resources in the melting Arctic Ocean,

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Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Arctic methane lid may be fracturing

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 20:18
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In what may point to an alarming new driver for global warming, scientists have found unexpected amounts of methane emerging

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Business USA 

Point Thomson, Alaska headed back to court yet again?

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 18:53
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The long-running war with Exxon Mobil Corp. over one of the nation’s most valuable oil and gas fields may be

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Epic gray whale migration reaches south Alaska and Bering Sea

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, April 30, 2012 at 15:05
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They exhaled heart-shaped blows visible for 1,000 yards across the green-hued sea. They rolled and they breached, waggled five-foot pectoral

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Gentle breakup on Alaska’s rivers keeps flooding at bay so far

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, April 27, 2012 at 19:25
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There’s no stopping it. When Alaska welcomes spring and summer, things get messy. Snow and ice melt send a new

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Does Russia’s white killer whale have an Alaska past?

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 15:40
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The white killer whale, dubbed “Iceberg” by scientists, spotted in the waters off of Russia in 2010, may be the

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Society Society (USA) USA 

Gold fever in Nome, Alaska has troopers, Coast Guard fearing the worst

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 19:43
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Fearing a frenzy, an outreach campaign off the hopeful shores of Nome begins in five weeks, when the US Coast

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