Issues affecting circumpolar nations
The National Science Foundation, an independent American federal agency, has awarded approximately $500,000 to research food security in Indigenous communities in
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A group of youth activists, impatient with the state’s response to global warming, formally petitioned Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s administration
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Leaders and experts in Alaska’s fishing industry are concerned about what a recent escape of farmed Atlantic salmon in Washington state
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A group of scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are hoping to give pickers better data on when berries
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Several hundred Pacific walruses have started to gather on an island off the northwest coast of Alaska — the earliest
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The federal government has announced a review of the status of the tiny Aleutian shield fern, which barely survives between the rocks and
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BETHEL — Across rural Alaska, cars, trucks and four-wheelers kick up clouds of road dust, a plague that coats tundra berries and
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Birds, fish, marine mammals, oil rigs, ships of various sizes and people cross paths in the Arctic waters off Alaska.
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For the Interior Alaska towns of Bettles, Tanana and McGrath, July was the warmest calendar month ever recorded, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday.
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For decades, the crowds of small, dark sea geese on the tundra of southwestern Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have been thinning,
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A former policy adviser at the Interior Department said the Trump Administration has retaliated against him for warning about the dangers
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A budget blueprint in the U.S. House is reviving hopes for Alaskans who want to see the coastal plain of
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The first sign came when a teenage girl from Gambell ended up in the hospital last summer. She was having
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As Arctic sea ice has dwindled, polar bear attacks on people have increased — correlated trends that point to distressed conditions
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BETHEL — Along the main thoroughfare here, drivers brake for warped asphalt. Houses sink unevenly into the ground. Walls crack and
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