Soft coal market worldwide leads to Alaska layoffs, uncertainty
Fewer locomotives brimming with coal will make their way through Alaska’s Railbelt this winter, thanks to a downturn in global
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Mariners dodging more free-floating ice in Arctic waters off Alaska
Alaska sailors negotiating shifty sea ice face a one-two punch from icebergs drifting south as the high Arctic melts, as
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Russian LNG tanker reaches Japan after traversing Northern Sea Route
According to the Financial Times (via IBN Live), Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom‘s loaded LNG tanker, Ob River, arrived in
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Battle brewing over fishery observers in Alaska waters
Notorious Alaska fish pirate Arne Fuglvog doesn’t appear to have cast much of a shadow. Not a year has passed
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Will airborne windmills revolutionize rural Alaska’s energy supply?
Wind turbines are no strangers to Alaska’s energy landscape. Increasingly, communities across the state are turning to them to help
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Friends of wilderness instructor lost in Alaskan Arctic persist after troopers abandon search
In the bitterly cold and increasingly dark Arctic of Alaska’s far northwest, the official search for the lost back-to-the-Earth adventurer
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UN climate report paints picture of hotter Earth, colder Alaska in 2012
The branch of the United Nations responsible for weather and climate monitoring released its provisional report for 2012 on Wednesday,
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Alaska’s Columbia glacier expected to stop retreating by 2020
When the Columbia Glacier started to suddenly retreat in the early 1980s, it lost miles of ice almost methodically. Between
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Arctic Alaskan community gets school back on track
In the aftermath of fall storms that delivered heavy rains and wiped out the water supply for a small, erosion-prone
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Revolution in rural Alaska education? Many embracing regional schools.
Despite almost two decades of working in rural Alaska schools, Iditarod School District Superintendent Scott Ballard still wasn’t prepared when
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Arctic Alaskan field station part of climate change study
At the Toolik Field Station nestled in Alaska’s Brooks Range some 158 miles north of the Arctic Circle, researchers are
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Traditional Alaska Thanksgiving recipes
Food writer and cookbook author John Hadamuscin once wrote the following: “There are four unbroken rules when it comes to
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Caribou study raises questions about national oil reserve development in Alaska
The same symbolic animal that kept oil drillers from punching into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could also hinder development
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Far-flung Arctic Alaska community warmer than usual. What’s behind the heat wave?
In Alaska’s Interior, it’s as cold as it ever was: Residents in the Interior community of Eagle saw temperatures dip
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Survivalist missing in Arctic Alaska since September
In the far northwest corner of Alaska, the temperature was 6 degrees below zero on Monday afternoon, already falling toward
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