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The Daily Climate, April 16, 2021
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The Daily Climate, April 14, 2021
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The Daily Climate, April 6, 2021
Articles include: Orphan oil wells & climate change; lightning, wildfires, and the Arctic; farmland restoration; wage gap; alternatives for coal country; carbon flooding; O&G jobs disappearing; Texas winter energy disaster; diseases in Alaska; drought in Michigan and Arizona; fossil fuel subsidies.
Yale Climate Connections, April 2, 2021
Articles include: Life in a remote Alaskan community on the front line of climate change; Our changing climate’s changing geographies; Suez Canal shutdown shows the vulnerability of the global economy to extreme events; Indigenous people in the Amazon use satellite data, smartphones, drones to fight illegal logging; Georgia science teacher helps students recognize misinformation about the climate; Costumed as ‘Cyril the Sorcerer,’ Connecticut man uses magic to teach kids about environmental issues; New York state’s climate goals are achievable, research finds;
Interior Department halts seismic surveys for oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
Arctic Today: Interior Department halts seismic surveys for oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge. The company proposing to survey parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain missed a deadline for its plan to protect polar bears.
lans for seismic surveys to help find oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have fizzled due to a lack of protection for polar bears, according to a brief statement Saturday from the Department of the Interior.
The Kaktovik Inupiat Corp (KIC), the Alaska Native-owned company that applied for permission to conduct the survey, failed to do the required work to identify polar bear dens in the region that would be surveyed, Interior spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an emailed statement.
The likely demise of the seismic plan is the latest in a series of setbacks that have deflated the decades-long ambition to convert the refuge into an oil-producing frontier.
Alaska’s oil production has been waning since the late 1980s, when the state produced more than 2 million barrels of crude per day. Now its output is roughly 500,000 bpd.
Former President Donald Trump pushed tax legislation that passed in 2017 and would have allowed for drilling in ANWR, and the federal government held a lease sale in the last days of his presidency.
Arctic drilling plan in Alaska hits roadblock
Reuters: Arctic drilling plan in Alaska hits roadblock.
Plans for seismic surveys to help find oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have fizzled due to a lack of protection for polar bears, according to a brief statement Saturday from the Department of the Interior.
The Kaktovik Inupiat Corp (KIC), the Native-owned company that applied for permission to conduct the survey, failed to do the required work to identify polar bear dens in the region that would be surveyed, Interior spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an emailed statement.
The likely demise of the seismic plan is the latest in a series of setbacks that have deflated the decades-long ambition to convert the refuge into an oil-producing frontier.
Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon
Yale Environment 360: Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon. In the renewed debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one troubling impact of oil development has been overlooked: Disrupting the annual caribou migration will have a profound effect on the soil and release even more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
They’re Arctic Survivors. How Will They Adapt to Climate Change?
New York Times: Wolverines – They’re Arctic Survivors. How Will They Adapt to Climate Change?
On Alaska’s North Slope, treeless and snow-shrouded for much of the year, it isn’t easy being a wolverine. The sinewy, solitary animals survive through a constant search for food, burrowing into snowdrifts to rest.
But the Arctic is rapidly changing, warming much faster than any other region, and the snow is melting earlier. Researchers want to understand how wolverines will adapt.
Peter Mather, a photographer, documented researchers’ fieldwork over several seasons. The images provide a rare glimpse at wolverines in the Arctic wilds.
How a US Arctic research initiative is pushing to connect science with Arctic communities
Arctic Today: How a US Arctic research initiative is pushing to connect science with Arctic communities. Three universities, including two in Alaska, will host the new Community Office of the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic program.
A major U.S. research effort focused on the impacts of rapid climate change in the Arctic is boosting its efforts to connect the science it funds with communities in the region.
The National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic program had already included goals related to community resilience, but the program’s new Community Office, announced Monday, will seek to better involve local residents in the research.
The NSF’s Navigating the New Arctic Community Office, will be jointly hosted by The University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage and the University of Colorado at Boulder.