Researchers identify Inuit gene responsible for sugar intolerance
For some northerners, there is reason to cut down on sugar that has nothing to do with New Year’s resolutions:
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Study shows polar bears relocating to icier Canadian Archipelago
Polar bears are relocating from ice-sparse parts of the Arctic to the Canadian Archipelago, an area with more dependable summer
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Annual Arctic Report Card details continued warming on land and sea
While the Arctic in 2014 continued its long-term warming, much of the rest of the world was struck by wacky
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Scientists seek cause of patchy baldness in some Beaufort Sea polar bears
Stressed-out polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea are losing some of their hair, but the precise cause of that stress
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Clues emerging about Arctic gene, diet and health
For thousands of years, the indigenous people of the far north survived the extreme cold of their environment with a
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Oil lease sale in Arctic Alaska draws big money
Oil companies spent big money Wednesday for rights to explore the Colville River Delta and other state territory, making this
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NASA findings show no excessive methane emissions from Alaska
Though Arctic Alaska is warming and permafrost is thawing, the area so far has been spared from the scourge of
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Beaufort Sea polar bear population took big hit in early 2000s, study says
The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea — considered one of the populations most vulnerable to reductions in Arctic
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Polar bears sniff pawprints to find clues about potential mates: study
Polar bears looking for mates appear to be following their noses over the sea ice, according to a newly published study.
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Alaska’s Harding Icefield loses mass
The huge Harding Icefield on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula shed some of its mass over the past year and Exit Glacier,
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Alaska Native children less likely to have been wearing helmet in ATV crashes: study
Alaska Native children hurt in off-road-vehicle accidents are far less likely than non-Native children to have been wearing helmets, resulting
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Barrow, Alaska’s dramatic autumn warming linked to shrinking sea ice
The nation’s northernmost community is getting warmer, most dramatically in October, when sea ice loss has been greatest, according to
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Huge onshore crowds of walruses a new phenomenon for Arctic Alaska, scientists say
Gatherings of thousands of walruses crowded together on northwestern Alaska shorelines, like the congregation of 35,000 animals spotted this weekend
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With floating ice sparse in the Chukchi Sea, an estimated 35,000 walruses were found crowded onto a beach near the
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Shift from traditional foods takes toll on Alaska Native populations
Are Alaska Natives, with their ancestors’ long history of harvesting and eating healthful wild foods, immune to the ill effects
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