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ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General USA

Walruses gather in Alaska at earliest date ever recorded

18 August 2017 Jerzy Shedlock, Alaska Dispatch 0 Comments Chuckchi Sea, climate change, Point Lay, sea ice, wildlife

Several hundred Pacific walruses have started to gather on an island off the northwest coast of Alaska — the earliest

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BUSINESS Business Featured General USA

Do Arctic villages need oil? Some Alaska tribal leaders say ‘no’

20 May 2016 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Arctic Slope. BOEM, Beaufort, Chukchi, Cook Inlet, Murkowski, Point Lay, politics, Washington, whaling

If oil companies are ever going to return to drill for oil in federal waters of the Arctic, they will

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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)

ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General USA

Huge onshore crowds of walruses a new phenomenon for Arctic Alaska, scientists say

2 October 20143 October 2014 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Chukchi, NOAA, Point Lay, wildlife

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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ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General SPECIAL FEATURES USA

Biologists spot huge gathering of walruses in Arctic Alaska

1 October 20142 October 2014 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Chukchi, NOAA, Point Lay, wildlife

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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