Eroding Alaska village urges Congress to address climate change
Congress has the dirt on climate change — literally. Five residents from the eroding village of Shishmaref in Northwest Alaska
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Author: Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Alaska plan to export North Slope gas draws support, criticism
In what Gov. Sean Parnell called a “major milestone,” the major oil producers in Alaska and pipeline builder TransCanada have
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Push to give Alaska Native languages official status
The state of Alaska has long fought against tribal sovereignty, but the state’s many Native languages will be officially recognized
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Ice-road construction reaches new levels in Arctic Alaska
Hundreds of miles of ice and snow roads are built from scratch every winter across the unforgiving Arctic wilderness, a
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Cook Inlet activity suggests boosted oil and gas production may be on the way for Alaska
A subsidiary of Alaska’s wealthiest homegrown corporation is expanding its footprint in Cook Inlet to support increasing industrial activity there,
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Alaska’s oil producers predict declining production despite tax cut
Goodbye million-barrel objective. Hello billion-dollar deficits. Alaska oil companies’ own numbers now back up state predictions that the amount of
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Shell plans Arctic Alaska comeback
Royal Dutch Shell is back, baby! Well, maybe. The Netherlands-based oil giant has long said it would not return to
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Panel blasts ‘colonial model’ of justice in rural Alaska
Members of a Congressionally-created panel that blasted the state’s justice system for Alaska Native villages arrived in Anchorage on Wednesday,
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Winter? What winter? November downright balmy in Arctic Alaska
The vicious bite of winter has swept across much of Alaska, but Barrow, a community that’s typically one of the
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Conoco adds rigs to Alaska operations
Oil rigs usually do their work in obscurity, but the two that ConocoPhillips hopes will help boost production on the
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Hundreds of dead seabirds wash ashore on Alaska island in Bering Sea
Nature’s cold brutality apparently marked hundreds — and perhaps thousands — of seabirds for death following storms that slammed into
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Ex-commissioner calls for Alaska energy mega-projects analysis, and ‘call bluff’ on North Slope gasline
With Alaska’s government now in the red but still blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on multiple energy mega-projects, it’s
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Shell moves to resume Arctic Alaska drilling
Shell is moving closer to resuming drilling in the Arctic Ocean next summer, but a Shell executive said Thursday the
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Climate-change relocation of Alaska village stops, after state audit finds potential wrongdoing
An effort to move an eroding Southwest Alaska village that’s a poster child for the negative effects of climate change
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Army of volunteers compiles possible evidence of climate change in Alaska
Dead seals littering beaches, bolts of fur dangling from deer, white worms squiggling in the meat of freshly killed grouse.
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