Alaska: Invasive plant found in floatplane lake
A tenacious, invasive aquatic plant is now growing in what might be the worst place in Alaska – the floatplane
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Better technology stretches Arctic Alaska’s shrinking tundra travel season
A decade ago, oil operators on the North Slope found themselves in a climate predicament. The steady warming seen since
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Endangered whales found dead in Alaska waters
At least nine fin whales have been found dead in recent weeks in southern Alaska waters, and researchers with the
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Acidification takes toll on Beaufort Sea
With their low temperatures that hold onto the carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere, their shallow depths, their rich supply
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U.S. to collect Arctic data for modern navigational charts
The Office of Coast Survey, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is one of the U.S. government’s oldest agencies,
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On edge: Planned Gulf of Alaska military exercise stirs opposition in coastal towns
If all goes according to the U.S. Navy’s plans, 6,000 sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard members will converge
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Arctic artifacts temporarily back in Alaska for examination
A century ago, when the pioneering Canadian Arctic Expedition started to go awry, anthropologist Diamond Jenness found himself stranded for nearly a year on
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Top Arctic official says cooperation key for Arctic Council under US leadership
A month into the U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council, the nation’s top Arctic official says he is being greeted with open arms
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Polar Code approval is timely for busy Bering Strait
The Bering Strait, the narrow chokepoint between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, has been a watery crossroads for millennia. Skin boats
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Unusual weather pattern brings record highs to Arctic Alaska
Temperatures have soared this week in Barrow, thanks to a high-pressure system parked over the Yukon Territory and British Columbia
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IMO completes Polar Code, regulating Arctic and Antarctic shipping
Starting in 2017, it will be illegal for shippers to dump oil, oily waste or noxious materials into Arctic or
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Shell’s Chukchi exploration plan wins federal approval
Federal regulators on Monday approved Royal Dutch Shell’s plan to resume oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean three years after a series of mishaps,
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Permafrost ‘carbon bomb’ unlikely, but worries over northern thaw persist
Cross one thing off the long list of possible apocalyptic climate-change scenarios: A new scientific analysis concludes that a “carbon bomb” of
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New evidence of prehistoric trade with Asia found at Alaska site
Four years ago, archaeologists announced they had found evidence on the Alaska side of the Bering Strait of trade with
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Cleanup completed on 6 Arctic legacy wells in Alaska
Cleanup is done on six legacy wells that are relics of early North Slope oil exploration, the Bureau of Land Management
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