Brookings: Federal funding, framework needed to help eroding Alaskan villages
The lack of a federal program to address Alaska’s climate-imperiled villages leaves those communities facing further harm, says a paper
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Alaska aviation deaths down by half in 2012
After a couple of rough years in Alaska aviation, 2012 offered a relative bright spot with 11 fatalities, almost half
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Scientists peg Alaska’s Kenai grizzly population at 624
Federal scientists have concluded there are 624 grizzly bears on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, or at least they believe there were
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For Alyeska dogs, avalanche rescue in Alaska is just a big game
GIRDWOOD — For the dogs of Alyeska’s Patrol Avalanche Canine (PAC) program, the tough job of saving lives is “kind
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Endangered North Pacific whales may receive stricter U.S. protection
A population of right whales that call the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska home during the summer may have
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State officials say Alaska’s Cook Inlet may have enough natural gas to avert crisis
JUNEAU — Cook Inlet may have plenty of natural gas for years to come, Alaska officials are telling lawmakers. “There’s
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Families still awaiting closure as military dissects 1952 Alaska glacier crash
When news came last summer that old airplane wreckage discovered on Colony Glacier belonged to a massive C-124 Globemaster that
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Researcher lays out three major possibilities for Alaska king salmon crash
On Monday in Anchorage at the first day of the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, where hundreds of scientists gathered to
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Will the shale-oil revolution sink Shell’s Arctic ambitions?
Perhaps more important than the clamour of environmentalists, the grandstanding of politicians, or the blunders of Royal Dutch Shell‘s own making
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Tracking the elusive (and mythical) wolverines of Alaska’s Chugach State Park
It’s the dead of winter. Dall sheep and moose are dying of starvation, disease, avalanches, and accidental falls. Their frozen
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Opening the Arctic: Spending, planning should match risks, national priorities
Two weeks ago, in harsh Alaska weather, the offshore oil drilling unit Kulluk was separated from its tow and drifted
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Huge wood bison may finally range freely in Alaska again
After more than two decades of trying to give the wood bison a renewed foothold in the Last Frontier, the
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Shell’s troubled rig won’t leave Kodiak bay until tanner crab season ends
Wednesday at noon, Kodiak Island fishermen will drop their pots into the water of outer Kiliuda Bay, hoping to bag
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Indigenous protest movement ‘Idle No More’ reaches Alaska
Last week “flash mobs” in solidarity with the Canadian-born indigenous rights movement, “Idle No More,” began popping up in Alaska’s
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US environmental body cites Shell for air-quality permit violations on Kulluk, Noble Discoverer
While Royal Dutch Shell’s recovery effort on the once-beached Kulluk drilling rig proceeds quietly, the Environmental Protection Agency is sounding
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