Governor Bill Walker’s Climate Action Leadership Team has been discussing a robust draft plan to tackle climate change.
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Experiments in northern Alaska seek to improve projections for a changing Arctic
“What we’re trying to do is make better predictions so that we can basically provide policy-makers with more useful, actionable information,” said Rogers.
Using data as a carrot, Alaska hopes to entice interest in oil lease sale
The state of Alaska is offering oil companies a sneak preview on three North Slope areas it’s putting up for bid at this year’s oil and gas lease sale.
Science program tries to make amends after sending mixed signals to native youth in Y-K Delta
Last year, Jasmine Gil, a young scientist from Bethel who participated, said that the group marginalized her project because it relied on traditional knowledge. Now, the organization is trying to make amends.
The ‘Blob’ is gone. But did it heat the Bering Sea enough to threaten your fish sticks?
The blob is gone now, but warm water remains to the north in the Bering Sea. Scientists are pondering potential effects on fish like pollock, which are processed into things like fish sticks and McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.
As lands uplift, a wetland refuge in Juneau is losing ground
The land right outside Rue’s house is fairly new. And there’s a geologic explanation for why the view has changed so much since his kids were small.