Acidification takes toll on Beaufort Sea
With their low temperatures that hold onto the carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere, their shallow depths, their rich supply
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Alaska
Shipping, military and the continental shelf: Arctic week in review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Appeals court upholds Shell’s Arctic oil spill plans
A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the Interior Department’s approval of two oil spill response plans crafted by Royal Dutch
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Blog: The Continental Shelf – Geological, legal or geopolitical?
With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up
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U.S. to collect Arctic data for modern navigational charts
The Office of Coast Survey, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is one of the U.S. government’s oldest agencies,
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Military, shipping and polar cooperation – Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Alaska’s Kuskokwim villages will be able to fish for king salmon under special permit
BETHEL — The first king salmon are moving into the Kuskokwim River, and so far the only effort to catch
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Arctic drilling doesn’t just effect the Arctic say Greenpeace campaign participants
Representatives from six of Canada’s First Nations are currently taking part in a Greenpeace campaign with a message that Arctic
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Blog: Parallels drawn between space race and Arctic offshore development
The reaction to the U.S. government’s decision to conditionally allow Shell to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer has
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Polar Code approval is timely for busy Bering Strait
The Bering Strait, the narrow chokepoint between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, has been a watery crossroads for millennia. Skin boats
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Oil & gas revenue-sharing is ‘simple fairness,’ says Alaska senator
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski wants Alaska to get a share of the federal revenues from oil and gas development off
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Blog: Obama defends Arctic drilling weeks after Kerry promotes clean energy at Arctic Council
At the Arctic Council ministerial in Iqaluit, Canada on April 25, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waxed poetic about
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Blog: Shell wins approval to continue the ‘depletion business’ of the Arctic
This week, the Obama administration conditionally approved Shell’s exploration plans this summer in the Chukchi Sea, off Alaska. The Bureau of
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Whaling group investigating report of bowhead calf taken in spring hunt
BETHEL – A report that a whaling crew from the village of Point Hope killed a bowhead calf will be
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Shell’s Chukchi exploration plan wins federal approval
Federal regulators on Monday approved Royal Dutch Shell’s plan to resume oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean three years after a series of mishaps,
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