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29.12.09 kl 11:58

Redoubt rumbles again

Redoubt, May 5Alaska's volcano sees its status upped as new seismic movement starts.  Read more

29.12.09 kl 01:56

2009: mixed bag in Alaska

Barrow youth with his whaleIssues that hit the nation hard seemed to hit the Arctic harder in 2009 - a deepening recession, inflation, global climate change, says the Arctic Sounder.  Read more

23.12.09 kl 11:54

Another spill for BP

spill Dec. 21The spill was discovered Monday by a BP oil field operator doing a routine inspection at a drill site.  Read more

22.12.09 kl 11:53

Barrow won't sue

Beaufort SeaThe North Slope Borough has decided against joining lawsuits challenging oil giant Shell over its plan for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea.  Read more

20.12.09 kl 12:19

Alaska: Snowzilla will rise again!

SnowzillaBut the snow has been powdery this year in Anchorage and not idea for snow sculpture.  Read more

17.12.09 kl 21:31

Alaska: on the front line of climate change

Kivalina poundedAlaska is on the front line of global climate change with melting glaciers and softening permafrost, an Alaska official told delegates during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.  Read more

16.12.09 kl 08:44

North Slope, environmentalists join forces to stop drilling

Beaufort SeaAlaska's North Slope groups who depend on whaling and a coalition of environmental groups sued the federal government Dec. 15, seeking to block a Shell Oil subsidiary from drilling next year in the Beaufort Sea.  Read more

10.12.09 kl 05:32

Pipe burst!

BP lineA rupture in a pipeline that began pouring oil and water Nov. 29, creating one of the biggest North Slope crude oil spills ever.   Read more

09.12.09 kl 05:36

Shell can drill

Chukchi SeaThe U.S. Interior Department announced on Dec. 7 its conditional approval of exploratory oil drilling by Royal Dutch Shell in the Chukchi Sea.  Read more

07.12.09 kl 06:30

Mixed news on Stellar's sea lions

Steller sea lionPups in the east of Alaska thrive, in the west, they struggle.  Read more

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