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NOAA to remove Endangered Species Act protections for most humpback whales

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 21:08
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Humpback whales, a species that migrates to Alaska and is famous for singing below the water’s surface and leaping above it,

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Map of the Barents Strait between Alaska and Russia's Chukotka region. How will tensions between Moscow and Washington affect researchers in the Arctic? (iStock)
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Whaling ship wreckage found off Arctic Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 16:57 — Last Updated: Friday, January 8, 2016 at 21:37
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When pack ice shifted to trap 33 commercial whaling ships off Alaska’s Arctic coast in the fall of 1871, more than

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
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Ocean acidification strong off Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2015 at 14:45 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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The Arctic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean, along with Antarctic waters, are acidifying faster than the rest of the world’s

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(Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press)
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Shipping, military and the continental shelf: Arctic week in review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2015 at 19:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 15:17
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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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The NOAA ship Rainier in Seward in 2001 for a Resurrection Bay mapping project Wednesday. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News)
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U.S. to collect Arctic data for modern navigational charts

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 13:37
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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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The Bering Sea (pictured above) has the benefit of phytoplankton blooms, something that helps buffer it against acidification. (iStock)
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Ice retreat threatening Bering Sea pollock

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 13:33 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 20:26
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The years 2002 through 2005 were bad for Bering Sea pollock. The biomass plunged during those years. In a presentation in

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(iStock)
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ARCTREX tests Arctic oil spill tracking techniques

Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage
Posted: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 14:38 — Last Updated: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 20:24
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Offshore oil and gas exploration has become increasingly prominent over the past several years. But, questions remain about how effective

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Sunset over the Barents Sea. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)
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2014 warmest year in history for Norway

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 20:41 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 22:13
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2014 was the warmest year ever recorded in Norway. The average annual temperature was 2.2 °C higher than normal –

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In this aerial photo taken on Sept. 23, 2014 and released by NOAA, some 1500 walrus are gather on the northwest coast of Alaska. Pacific walrus looking for places to rest in the absence of sea ice are coming to shore in record numbers, according to NOAA. (Corey Accardo/ NOAA/AP)
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Huge onshore crowds of walruses a new phenomenon for Arctic Alaska, scientists say

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 13:59 — Last Updated: Friday, October 3, 2014 at 21:01
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Gatherings of thousands of walruses crowded together on northwestern Alaska shorelines, like the congregation of 35,000 animals spotted this weekend

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Biologists spot huge gathering of walruses in Arctic Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 18:17 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 17:57
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With floating ice sparse in the Chukchi Sea, an estimated 35,000 walruses were found crowded onto a beach near the

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Ice-Blog: Arctic thaw – carry on regardless?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2014 at 11:04 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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When a colleague who has a lot of sympathy for those who do NOT accept that humans are responsible for

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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