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New Proposal to Protect Alaskan Wilderness Most Sweeping in Decades
2015-01-25 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: No president in 35 years has made as sweeping a conservation proposal as President Barack Obama did today by urging Congress to transform the oil-laden coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into what would be the largest wilderness area in the nation's history. The president's move to designate 12.3 million acres of new wilderness would block decades of efforts to drill for oil on a 1.5-million-acre portion of the refuge. That coastal region is thought to contain up to 10.3-billion...
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Sinking Soils Further Impede Efforts To Extricate Alaskan Way Viaduct's Stuck TBM
2014-12-23 20:19:24| ENR.com: Headline News
Pump plan for access pit may have contributed to settlement.
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Alaskan char adapt to climate change by following food
2014-12-21 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: While climate change has placed many different types of creatures in peril, others including a species of Alaskan char known as Dolly Varden have managed to adapt to warming conditions, claims new research published earlier this month in the journal Freshwater Biology. According to lead author Christopher J. Sergeant of the National Park Services Inventory and Monitoring Program in southeastern Alaska and his colleagues, Dolly Varden have adjusted their migratory patterns in order to have...
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Remote Alaskan town is the canary in the US climate change coal mine
2014-12-17 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inhabit: The town of Shishmaref, Alaska lies on an island 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle and next to the Chukchi Sea. Its residents, Native Alaskan Inupiaq people, can really see Russia from their house! However, the rapidly changing climate, which is changing faster in Alaska than anywhere else in the nation, is keeping the Chukchi Sea from freezing as early as it used to leaving the shoreline exposed to fall and winter storms. It`s also melting the permafrost upon which the town`s nearly 600 residents...
Obama Indefinitely Bans Drilling in Alaskan Bay
2014-12-17 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama on Tuesday again used his executive authority to enact an environmental priority as he indefinitely barred oil and gas exploration of Alaskas picturesque Bristol Bay to protect some of the nations most productive commercial fisheries. Mr. Obama first put the ecologically sensitive area of the Bering Sea home to an important population of whales, seals and sea lions off limits to oil rigs in 2010, but that restriction was set to expire in 2017, several months after he leaves...
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