Study sheds light on peopling of the Arctic
Archaeologists have been arguing for decades about how human beings got to the new world, and genetic research released today
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Shell’s new Chukchi plan: Two rigs drilling wells at the same time
Two years after its ill-fated drilling season in Arctic waters off Alaska, Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday submitted a revised
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Cultural ties may help prevent suicide in Arctic indigenous peoples, experts say
Amid the grim statistics about suicide in the far north there are some bright spots — and potential lessons for
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Creating links across the Arctic – A look back on the Beringia Arctic Games
To view photo captions, click on “SL” and then the “info” button in the top right-hand corner The inaugural Beringia
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Papp draws on long U.S. Coast Guard experience to guide Arctic policies
For former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Robert Papp, newly appointed as the government’s top Arctic envoy, leading American circumpolar policy
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Northwest Alaska villagers concerned about dead salmon washing up along Kobuk River
For the last week, from Shugnak all the way down to Kotzebue, people are reporting dead fish washed up on
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First ‘luxury’ cruise ship will sail Arctic passage
A U.S. cruise company plans to send a luxury cruise ship through the Northwest Passage in August 2016. It would
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Ice-Blog: Arctic methane: time bomb or “boogeyman”?
When the Ice Blog was launched in 2008, one of the first posts from a trip to Alaska entitled “Ice-Capades
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U.S. judge rules beringia bearded seals improperly listed as threatened
Alaska’s bearded seals, animals with distinctive whiskers and a penchant for floating alone on pieces of drifting Arctic sea ice,
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Rising mercury levels leave their mark on yellow-billed loons, study says
Yellow-billed loons that migrate to nesting sites on Alaska’s Arctic coastal plain are bearing an undesirable burden that comes from
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Arctic air clearer after Soviet Union’s collapse, long-term study says
The clouds of black carbon soiling snow and ice in Finland’s Arctic region have diminished significantly since the middle of
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Alaska military sites vulnerable to climate change
Several U.S. military sites are vulnerable to rising temperatures and seas as well as other impacts of climate change, and
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Ice-Blog: Arctic birds breeding earlier
Migratory birds that breed in the Arctic are starting to nest earlier in spring because the snow melt is occurring
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U.S. Senate bill includes $6 million for new icebreaker
A bill moving through the U.S. Senate has $6 million for a new Coast Guard icebreaker. That would make three
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Arctic plants to be studied in Nunavut
A team of botanists is headed next week to a remote area in the Canadian territory of Nunavut to try
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