Alaska seaweed may be potent weapon against diabetes, obesity
Plants growing in the waters of Southeast Alaska have to be tough to withstand the strong tides, cold temperatures, relentless
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Alaska: Judge orders new review for 2008 Chukchi Sea lease sale
Six years after Shell and other companies bought oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea, the Interior Department is
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Ability to respond to oil spill in the Arctic called ‘sorely lacking’
Before anyone can adequately respond to oil spills in the U.S. Arctic, people need to know much more about what
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The Arctic from space: Warming, thaw and melt
In space, everyone can see the Arctic heating up. That’s the message from NASA scientists in a new study published
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Alaska: Biologists seek help to solve mystery of disappearing rusty blackbirds
A species of bird now flying north to summer breeding grounds in the boreal forests of Alaska and Canada has
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Fish show traces of banned pesticides in some Alaska parks
Traces of pesticides that were likely never used in Alaska and have — in some cases — long been outlawed
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Shippers and seabirds clash over Arctic territory says study
The areas coveted as sea routes for commercial shippers seeking to exploit newly ice-free Arctic waters are the same areas
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Tackling ‘frost boils’ on Alaska’s Arctic Highway
A few miles from the Arctic Circle, on the United States’ only Arctic highway, there’s a sloped area notorious for
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Genetic studies of polar bears’ past raises questions about their future
Today’s polar, brown and black bears are the descendants of common ancestors that first began to split off into different
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Arctic sea ice sends mixed messages about how rapidly it’s melting
Arctic sea ice reached its maximum annual coverage two weeks ago, hitting a peak of 14.8 million square kilometers (5.7
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World’s farthest-north dinosaur bone find sheds light on Cretaceous world
The world’s northernmost dinosaur discovery is shedding light on prehistoric life in the far north during the Cretaceous period, according
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In topsy-turvy ‘polar vortex’ winter, ice sparse in Arctic, abundant in Great Lakes
Looking for solid sea ice? Head south, not north. Even as spring approaches, the Great Lakes continue to have nearly
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Scientists discover pygmy tyrannosaur that once roamed Arctic Alaska
A previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur — a petite tyrannosaur related to the much-larger Tyrannosaurus rex — roamed Alaska’s North Slope
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US Navy aims to boost its presence in a melting Arctic
The U.S. Navy plans to boost its knowledge of the Arctic in the next few years, preparing for what is
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Oregon mining company says it can build Arctic port for Alaska
Worried that the other nations are crushing the United States in the race for Arctic shipping and resource-extraction dominance because
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