29.12.09 kl 11:58
Redoubt rumbles again

Alaska's volcano sees its status upped as new seismic movement starts.
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29.12.09 kl 01:56
2009: mixed bag in Alaska

Issues that hit the nation hard seemed to hit the Arctic harder in 2009 - a deepening recession, inflation, global climate change, says the Arctic Sounder.
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23.12.09 kl 11:54
Another spill for BP

The spill was discovered Monday by a BP oil field operator doing a routine inspection at a drill site.
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22.12.09 kl 11:53
Barrow won't sue

The North Slope Borough has decided against joining lawsuits challenging oil giant Shell over its plan for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea.
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20.12.09 kl 12:19
Alaska: Snowzilla will rise again!

But the snow has been powdery this year in Anchorage and not idea for snow sculpture.
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17.12.09 kl 21:31
Alaska: on the front line of climate change

Alaska 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.
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16.12.09 kl 08:44
North Slope, environmentalists join forces to stop drilling

Alaska'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.
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10.12.09 kl 05:32
Pipe burst!

A rupture in a pipeline that began pouring oil and water Nov. 29, creating one of the biggest North Slope crude oil spills ever.
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09.12.09 kl 05:36
Shell can drill

The U.S. Interior Department announced on Dec. 7 its conditional approval of exploratory oil drilling by Royal Dutch Shell in the Chukchi Sea.
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07.12.09 kl 06:30
Mixed news on Stellar's sea lions

Pups in the east of Alaska thrive, in the west, they struggle.
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