Canadian river carries carbon from thawing permafrost to sea
The mighty Mackenzie River, the largest northward-flowing river in North America and one of the main sources of freshwater flowing into
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Alaska
Arctic ice extent stays clear of record low
Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was lopsided, scientists said Wednesday. While ice clogged waters in northeast
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Why Shell is sticking to Chukchi plans
Despite tumbling oil prices, rising costs, legal woes, heated political opposition and a series of missteps and misadventures, Royal Dutch
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Life on the U.S. icebreaker Healy
It’s been two days since the only U.S. ship deployed above the Arctic Circle each summer has left the ice,
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Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering waves are getting bigger: study
Waves grew bigger and spaced farther apart as ice cover diminished in the Arctic and sub-Arctic waters off Alaska and western Canada,
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Limits put on Shell’s Arctic drilling
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior gave Shell approval Wednesday for exploratory drilling at two sites in the
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U.S. Coast Guard and scientists on Arctic mission
KODIAK — It’s about 5:45 a.m. on a dewy Tuesday morning, and an enthusiastic climatologist is preparing to board a U.S. Coast Guard flight over
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Blog: The Arctic is not just an earmark for Alaska says senator
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) gave a speech at the 6th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval
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U.S. officials consider leasing icebreakers as budget reality sinks in
WASHINGTON — Congress isn’t going to write a billion-dollar check, or several, to fund Arctic icebreakers anytime soon, so the
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Amendment blocks ANWR wilderness plan
Alaska Congressman Don Young added an amendment to a bill this week that would block the feds from spending any
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Shell icebreaker damaged, returns to port
In another hurdle for Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program, an ice-handling vessel playing a key role in the operation has
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Alaska: Fisheries board member cited for violating fishery closure
A member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries was cited by wildlife troopers in the commercial fishing hotbed of Dillingham last week
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Crawling robot patrols Alaska pipeline’s formerly ‘unpiggable’ pipes
In the trans-Alaska pipeline’s early days there was just a pig, a large projectile sliding through pipe with the flow of crude oil,
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U.S. polar bear conservation plan focuses on near-term goals
The federal agency that manages polar bears concedes the most important action needed to protect the threatened animals – reduction
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Let locals decide fate of Arctic drilling says U.S. politician
WASHINGTON — What happens in the Arctic is the Arctic’s business, Rep. Don Young told members of a House subcommittee on
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