Tragic wave of suicides batter remote Alaska villages
What local health care officials are calling a rare wave of suicides has left several Southwest Alaska villages reeling in
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Flooding threat wanes across Alaska
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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Historic deal provides veterans health care in Alaska bush
Veterans health care will come to rural Alaska thanks to an unprecedented accord between the Department of Veterans Affairs and
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Is warming climate producing bigger storms?
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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Greenland glaciers debunk worst-case sea level scenarios
Like so much of climate science, the latest insight from the frozen world of Greenland offers one of those good
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Humpbacks free themselves of fishing gear in Southeast Alaska
A pair of humpback whales entangled in fishing gear in Southeast Alaska managed to elude a team of scientists trying
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Wind power fuels renewable-energy revolution in rural Alaska
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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Polar bear moms, some cubs swim long distances: study
Scientists have long known that polar bears can swim marathon distances, but a new study finds their aquatic endurance better
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Military buildup in Arctic linked to climate change: report
Is the Arctic being militarized? As nations and corporations look north to unlock natural resources in the melting Arctic Ocean,
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Arctic methane lid may be fracturing
In what may point to an alarming new driver for global warming, scientists have found unexpected amounts of methane emerging
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Point Thomson, Alaska headed back to court yet again?
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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Epic gray whale migration reaches south Alaska and Bering Sea
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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Gentle breakup on Alaska’s rivers keeps flooding at bay so far
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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Does Russia’s white killer whale have an Alaska past?
The white killer whale, dubbed “Iceberg” by scientists, spotted in the waters off of Russia in 2010, may be the
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Gold fever in Nome, Alaska has troopers, Coast Guard fearing the worst
Fearing a frenzy, an outreach campaign off the hopeful shores of Nome begins in five weeks, when the US Coast
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