Alaska’s duck-billed dinosaurs overwintered on frigid North Slope
The duck-billed dinosaurs that roamed Alaska’s Far North about 70 million years ago weren’t fair-season snowbirds that meandered south once
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ConocoPhillips earned about $7 million a day on Alaska oil during first quarter
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell is bound and determined to give a huge tax break to Alaska’s major oil companies because
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Arctic Alaska villages thankful for abundant whaling season
With spring bowhead whaling season in full swing, at least five Alaska communities are distributing and celebrating their behemoth harvests,
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Can remote Little Diomede, Alaska exploit the future?
LITTLE DIOMEDE, Alaska – Build it and they will come. Don’t and they will pass by. This is the trendy,
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Rig purchase bodes well for oil and gas potential in Alaska’s Cook Inlet
Hoping to capitalize on overlooked oil and gas riches in Cook Inlet, an Australian firm says it will acquire a
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New study sheds light on polar bear origins
The iconic white bears that prowl the sea ice north of Alaska and across the Arctic may have evolved into
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Revenue tussle ices Arctic oil drilling safety upgrades
Shortly after a new report hammered Congress for not improving drilling safety two years after the nation’s worst oil spill,
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Alaska’s Bering Strait key to maintaining global climate balance: study
Alaska’s Bering Strait may play a critical role in the regulation of the global climate — including a knack for
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Start of the Alaska fishing season snowed under in Yakutat
As if the winter of epic snowfall wasn’t enough to suffer in coastal Alaska, now comes some really bad news:
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Oil tax battle rages in Alaska
The Alaska Legislature, perpetually torn for years now over whether the state’s taxing its lifeblood industry too much, adjourned Sunday
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Balding bears? More polar bears with hair loss found
Polar bear researchers in Alaska continue to find bears with missing hair and skin lesions. So far, more than a
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Arctic sea ice hits max for winter, record floes off Alaska
After growing to one of the biggest polar packs seen during the past decade, sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean
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Satellites show thawing of Alaska’s permafrost
Climate warming has begun to etch subtle changes to the Arctic land surface, with satellites unveiling hints about the fate
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Polar bears accumulating fewer industrial poisons
A new study of polar bears prowling the ice-bound shores of Svalbard has found them carrying lower levels of the
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Industry-backed Alaska bill could block citizen opposition to big projects
The Alaska Legislature is considering making it tougher for citizens to use the courts to stop oil, gas, mining or
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