March’s Arctic ice extent was lowest on record for the month
Following a record-low winter maximum hit in late February, Arctic sea ice extent in March was the lowest for that
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Alaska Senate passes bill establishing an official state Arctic policy
The Alaska Senate on Tuesday passed a bill establishing an official state Arctic policy that, in large part, calls for more natural-resource
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U.S. Interior Secretary affirms 2008 Chukchi lease sale
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Tuesday validated the 2008 sale of oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea, a
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Will Alaska’s weird winter be followed by equally strange summer?
After an odd Alaska winter of record-warm temperatures and pouring rain instead of snow, will summer be weird as well? While scientists
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NOAA, Coast Guard team up to re-survey Arctic waters
As Arctic commerce heats up, more ships are expected to pass by the Aleutian Islands, through the Bering Strait and north
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Glacier ice in narrow fjords creates oceans’ noisiest known conditions, study says
Glacier Acoustics Project from Hilary Hudson on Vimeo. The noisiest places found yet in the world’s oceans are some of
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Murkowski, King seek to enlist other U.S. senators in an Arctic caucus
Coming soon to the U.S. Capitol is a new group of lawmakers: the Senate Arctic Caucus. As of Tuesday, the
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Targeted Arctic lease sales could ward off conflicts says U.S. agency
A fresh new five-year plan for oil and gas leasing in the nation’s outer continental shelf features what federal officials hope will
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Alaska: Cleanup for 6 Arctic legacy wells
Cleanup work is scheduled to start this week on six of the legacy oil wells that were drilled and abandoned decades ago
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Chemical contaminants suspect in mystery of Alaska chickadee beak deformities
When black-capped chickadees and some other birds in the Anchorage area began turning up in the late 1990s with elongated, weirdly
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Big changes in Far North since US last chaired Arctic Council
When the United States last led the eight-nation Arctic Council, September sea ice still covered about 2.3 million square miles, Royal Dutch Shell had
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Alaska should seize Arctic opportunities, commission report says
With industry poised to invest billions of dollars in the rapidly thawing and increasingly accessible and resource-rich Arctic, Alaska now has
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Chukchi Sea shoal newly closed to oil leasing is well known as biological hot spot
Hanna Shoal, a region of shallow water in the remote Chukchi Sea that President Barack Obama last week put off limits to
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Old chart identified as artifact from ill-fated Arctic voyage of the Karluk
A stained and torn navigational chart donated two years ago to a museum in Maine turns out to be a
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Obama issues executive order to better coordinate Arctic policy
With the United States on the verge of leading the eight-nation Arctic Council and far-north climate warming continuing at twice the
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