Shell’s Alaska-bound oil drilling ship occupied by Greenpeace, Xena actress
Shell Oil Co. offshore Alaska drilling operations aren’t safe even from “Xena the Warrior Princess.” Lucy Lawless, the actress who
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Racing sled dogs: The care of canine ultra-athletes
The deaths of six dogs during the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race cast a pall over the annual 1,000-mile
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Are beluga, bowhead whales ‘nonhuman persons’ who shouldn’t be hunted?
Are dolphins, porpoises and whales so intelligent and self-aware that they should be treated as “nonhuman persons” — entitled to
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Melting glaciers: The great ocean fertilizers
Organic grit from human activities — preserved by glaciers for centuries and now flushing into the ocean in a colossal
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HIV outbreak rattles Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks, Alaska
Two potentially deadly disease outbreaks in Alaska have public health officials on edge, particularly at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks. State
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When it comes to avalanches, you can’t buy sound judgment
Girdwood skier Elyse Saugstad believes an ABS Avalanche Airbag Backpack saved her life in a deadly, weekend avalanche in the
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Alaskan songbird travels 18,000 miles to winter in Africa
During the fall of 2009, three tiny Alaskan songbirds took an amazing three-month journey that began on a windswept dome
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Grueling Iron Dog snowmachine race under way in Alaska
Two weeks ago, the world’s longest, toughest snowmachine race was looking like a bone-numbing, face-freezing charge north into 50-degrees-below zero
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Does Alaska’s Rural Justice commission have a future?
An agency that has fought to improve life in rural Alaska might get new life itself if Senator Lisa Murkowski
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With its start area underwater, Alaska Iron Dog officials scramble
An ice fishermen has inadvertently sabotaged the Big Lake start of the Iron Dog — the world’s longest and toughest
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Oil company still trying to control Alaska well blowout, help on the way
An oil rig in Alaska’s Far North was evacuated Wednesday after a Repsol drilling contractor hit a pocket of gas
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Drones over Alaska: UAVs may play big role in developing Arctic
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, often referred to as “drones,” don’t get a lot of good press. Usually, when a drone makes
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Alaska glaciers losing 46 billion tons of ice each year
Alaska glaciers have been shedding about 46 billion tons of ice each year, making America’s Arctic state the world’s single
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Fighting a tuberculosis ‘flare-up’ in rural Alaska
State and local health officials are working to contain a rise in confirmed and suspected tuberculosis cases in Southwest Alaska,
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Feeding Alaska Moose: Public safety policy or something else?
Coming soon to a movie theater near you: “The Big Miracle, Part Deux,” starring the Alaska Moose Federation in the
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