How could Alaska students have avoided bear attack?
Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a series examining the sequence of events during last summer’s unprecedented grizzly attack
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Deputy director fired over Russian oil rig sinking
According to Norway’s Barents Observer, Vasily Vasetsky, the deputy director of Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka (AMNGR), the owner of the jack-up rig Kolskya
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Shell wins injunction against Greenpeace Arctic drilling protestors
Shell Oil Co. on Wednesday won a court battle that would keep activists for Greenpeace USA off Alaska-bound ships intended
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Alaska authorities prepare for ‘Bering Sea Gold’ rush
Aging Interior Alaska resident Jim Wilde learned well in the autumn of 2010 the danger of failing to register a
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Report details 2011 Alaska grizzly bear attack on students
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part series examining the sequence of events during last summer’s unprecedented grizzly attack on seven
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Gray whales reach Gulf of Alaska on annual migration north
The first migrating gray whales have reached Alaska waters. The annual spring jaunt north by thousands of big cetaceans now
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Alaska’s brutally frigid winter tempers decade-long loss of sea ice
Let the annual Arctic Ocean meltdown commence. After a brutally frigid winter that jammed Alaska’s Bering Sea with big-dog floes,
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Who should pay for fuel delivery to remote Alaskan community?
A one-of-a-kind international fuel delivery to ice-encased city on Alaska’s western coast may be recent history, but a new journey
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Rural Alaskan village declares disaster
Another Alaska city buried in snow has declared a disaster. Only this time the pounding has not come from the
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Hospitality of Arctic villages makes Kobuk 440 popular
The Kobuk 440 sled dog race is not for the faint of heart. It’s touted as “The Toughest Race Above
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Analysis: Alaska oil tax debate, are industry threats any different this time?
At a recent state Senate Resources Committee hearing, BP Alaska’s chief financial officer sat in front of a handful of
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Controversial moose relocation program under way in Alaska
For the first time, the Alaska has signed off on letting a private organization capture and transplant moose that have
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US coast guard to patrol Arctic Ocean, conduct oil-spill test
The U.S. Coast Guard plans to muscle up its Arctic presence this summer, patrolling for the first time in a
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Melting Arctic linked to snowier winters in US, Europe
If an ice floe disintegrates off Barrow in September, will 29 inches of snow whomp Great Kills in New York
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New report reveals vast stores of Alaska shale oil and gas
Calling Alaska’s North Slope an “unexplored frontier” for shale oil and gas — the controversial resource that’s sparked an energy
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