Newscast – Wednesday, March 13, 2024

In this newscast:

  • The Juneau School Board has decided to stick with its previously adopted school closure plan,
  • Humpback whales are often considered a conservation success story. The species was near extinction just 50 years ago — today, tens of thousands of humpbacks call the North Pacific home. But climate change may be stunting the species’ recovery.  A new study using artificial intelligence shows that Alaska’s humpback population has dropped more than 30% in a decade,
  • A hydroelectric project on Admiralty Island over 40 years in the making has won federal funding for construction

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