Shell mulls Chukchi-only drilling for 2014, minus troubled Kulluk rig
If Royal Dutch Shell resumes exploration drilling in Alaska’s offshore Arctic waters, it will do so only in the Chukchi
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Comprehensive cleanup planned for oldest oil and gas wells drilled in the Arctic
There’s a spot about 15 miles southeast of Barrow where a battered, red-painted wood building provides weary snowmobilers with a
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Study: Eastern Canadian temperatures hotter now than in 44,000 years
Ancient plants exposed by newly melted ice on Baffin Island suggest that summers in the eastern Canadian Arctic are warmer
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Alaska’s Perot dinosaur had ‘wrong-way’ horns, study says
Why is Alaska’s pachyrhinosaurus species different from all other pachyrhinosaurus species? Apparently, it comes down to what was on the
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Tipping point for polar ice cap may have come in 2012
This year may have granted a slight reprieve for vanishing Arctic sea ice, but evidence gathered to date shows
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Preserving Arctic historic site with 3D technology
New technology has preserved, in cyber form, some famous high-Arctic structures that have fallen victim to the real-world ravages
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Russia sees Wrangel Island oil and gas potential; Greenpeace eyes an eastern Arctic front
A remote island off northeast Russia has been swept into that nation’s campaign to capitalize on the Arctic’s potential for
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