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Federal funding freeze threatens local climate, wildlife and coastal research
While the federal funding freeze has lifted, area researchers remain concerned, confused about the future of federally funded climate and resilience projects.
Oil industry unlikely to rush to Alaska despite Trump's call to drill
U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's ...
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Appeals Court Orders U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Fix Regulations Allowing Fossil Fuel Industry to Harm Polar Bears
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must correct legal errors in a regulation that allows oil and gas companies to harass ...
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Alaska wildlife refuge drilling auction yields no bids, US says
ANWR's 1.6 million-acre coastal area along the Beaufort Sea is estimated to have up to ... and public relations challenges around drilling in a wildlife sanctuary. A native group, Voice of the ...
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Is opening up the Alaska wildlife refuge to oil exploration a bad thing? Depends on who you ask in the North
A number of groups are weighing in on President Donald Trump's executive order opening up the Alaska refuge to oil ...
Alligator spotted stuck in icy lake as deep freeze hit the South
Video showed the alligator stuck in an icy pond after the South’s recent deep freeze, which brought a rare bout of ice and ...
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Biden Administration Lets Oil Companies Disturb Polar Bears, Walruses in Alaska’s Western Arctic, Beaufort Sea
Today’s authorization covers existing and planned activities across a wide swath of Alaska’s Arctic, including 7.9 million acres in the Beaufort Sea, and onshore activities from Point Barrow to the ...
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Extreme cold chills marine life in Beaufort and Hilton Head. ‘We’re at critical tipping point’
The crew of the Beaufort-based Lydia Leigh pose for a picture during a shrimp haul. Craig Reaves, the owner of Sea Eagle Market, which owns the vessel, says cold temperatures have the potential to ...
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Oil companies place no bids in Alaska wildlife refuge drilling auction
ANWR’s 1.6 million-acre coastal area along the Beaufort Sea is estimated to have up to ... and public relations challenges around drilling in a wildlife sanctuary. A native group, Voice of ...
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Trump is ‘sympathetic’ to executive order on Alaskan drilling, senator says
One of America’s last wild places Perhaps nowhere has inspired a fiercer fight than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ... for some of the southern Beaufort Sea’s last remaining polar ...
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Oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge draws no bids
The Canning River, seen here in 2018, flows from the Brooks Range into the Beaufort Sea along the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The incoming Trump administration has ...
Alaska wildlife refuge drilling auction yields no bids, US says
The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday a congressionally mandated oil and gas drilling lease auction in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge received no bids from energy companies.