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Trump Administration Releases Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging
The New York Times discusses how the Trump Administration Releases Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging. The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years.
The Trump administration on Friday finalized its plan to […]
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To Save a Way of Life, Native Defenders Push to Protect the Arctic Refuge
Yale Environment 360 discusses how Native Defenders Push to Protect the Arctic Refuge, to save their way of life. Gwich’in elder Sarah James has long fought efforts to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In an e360 interview, she talks about the Trump administration’s move to open these lands […]
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Study: Pink salmon could prosper in warmer Arctic
Alaska Public Media – NPR discusses how pink salmon could prosper in warmer Arctic, per a new study.
Scientists like to say that climate change is creating winners and losers in Alaska: Some species will struggle, while others could benefit from warmer habitats.
One of those climate change winners could be […]
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Permafrost results in $20M water costs for Alaska zinc mine
AP News discusses how Permafrost results in $20M water costs for Alaska zinc mine.
A company operating one of the world’s largest zinc mines in northwest Alaska said thawing permafrost linked to global warming forced an expenditure of nearly $20 million on water storage and discharge management.
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3 articles on Alaska mining and oil extraction’s horrific effects
CNN discusses why it’s a bizarre time for Trump to open Alaska’s Arctic refuge up to oil drilling. The world is swimming in excess oil. Crude prices are weak. Oil companies are starving for cash. And climate change fears are palpable. It’s a bizarre time […]
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2 articles on the problems facing salmon.
The Narwhal discusses how the Yukon River salmon count comes up 20,000 short, halting First Nations fisheries. Warming, disease and high waters blamed for disappearance of thousands of Chinook salmon that entered river in Alaska but never made it across Yukon border. Almost 20,000 Chinook salmon expected to cross the […]
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Report: How lessons from Isle de Jean Charles could guide federal climate migration planning
The New Orleans Advocate discusses how lessons from Isle de Jean Charles could guide federal climate migration planning.
The relocation of Isle de Jean Charles’ residents from their disappearing island could help the federal government develop a model for moving more people away from rising seas, stronger […]
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Study: Heavy summer rains speed permafrost thaw
Arctic Today discusses a new study showing how heavy summer rains speed permafrost thaw. The Arctic is getting rainier, but relatively few studies so far have taken rain’s effect on permafrost thaw into account.
It’s widely understood that rising temperatures in the North are thawing permafrost. And the relationships between permafrost […]
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Study: ‘Catastrophic’ increase in Arctic wave heights predicted due to melting sea ice.
The Narwhal discusses how a ‘catastrophic’ increase in Arctic wave heights is predicted due to melting sea ice. More open water means bigger waves — which spells trouble for communities like Tuktoyaktuk, already faced with an eroding coastline due to permafrost thaw and the battering Beaufort Sea, new research shows.
New […]
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