Climate Change

Mar 12 2019
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Cash-strapped state of Alaska takes aim at North Slope government’s oil money

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Climate Change, Energy & Mining, Local Government, North Slope, Politics, State Government

A proposal by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy would strip the North Slope Borough of its power to collect nearly $400 million in property taxes from oil companies each year. The idea gets at a longstanding question: How much money from oil should stay in the North Slope, where it’s pumped from the ground?

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Mar 06 2019
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Sea Surface temperature map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Predicting marine heatwaves can have economic implications

By | Aleutians, Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Federal Government, Fisheries, Oceans, Science & Tech, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest, State Government, Subsistence, Weather, Wildlife

The Gulf of Alaska is once again experiencing a marine heatwave. Scientists around the world are trying to predict these events, but there are economic implications to forecasting the future.

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Mar 05 2019
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Prospect of commercial fishing in central Arctic Ocean poses big questions for science

By | Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Climate Change, Federal Government, Fisheries, Nation & World, Oceans

The first legally-binding, multilateral agreement to prevent commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean was signed last year. A key part of that agreement is collaboration on scientific research, which could underpin a management plan later.

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