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The Dinner Party That Served Up 50,000-Year-Old Bison Stew
When life gives you frozen bison, make dinner.
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Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?
Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and frozen history.
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Tsunami warning ends after large earthquake strikes off Alaska
A tsunami warning is in effect for coastal British Columbia and parts of Alaska after an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck 256 kilometres southeast of Chiniak, Alaska, at a depth of 10 kilometres.
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Cemeteries Turn To Swamps As Alaska's Permafrost Melts
A cemetery in rural Alaska that was built into the permanently frozen layer of soil is at risk now that the permafrost is melting.
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The GOP is deluding themselves about oil in Alaska
Early Saturday morning, Senate Republicans narrowly passed a controversial tax bill which—aside from overwhelmingly benefiting the rich—will open up 1.5-million acres of the pristine, 20-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil and gas drilling. The fate of the ANWR has been a decades-long tug-o-war between Republicans and Democrats, with the right seeing the massive oil reserves within the park as a source of revenue for Alaska and the country, and the left insisting on preserving the land, which supports hundreds of bird species, arctic foxes, caribou, and polar bears.
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The Great Thaw of America’s North is Coming
One of the most profound effects of a warming world is underway on US soil – the impact will force thousands to relocate, and have far-reaching, global consequences.
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Alaska voters reject local bans on legalized marijuana
Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation's largest state passed a voter initiative legalizing the recreational use of the drug.
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Aging in the Time of Endless War
Perhaps I was shipwrecked, philosophically speaking, but I managed to take in the glorious north with its iced hills shimmering under the low and golden light. On the hike back out I realized that I hadn’t had my heart in the hike... By Nelson Lowhim.
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First Significant U.S. Snowfall of the Season Possible This Weekend
Parts of Alaska will get their first taste of winter this weekend.
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Boat captain leaps into sea to save crew after capsizing
A veteran fishing boat captain jumped into cold, rough waters to save one of his crew members after their vessel capsized off the Alaska coast. US Coast Guard video of one of the rescues shows Captain Christian Trosvig in an orange life vest swimming to a man struggling to stay afloat and pulling him to an awaiting boat. The Coast Guard says the captain of the Grayling leapt into 47-degree water during Monday's terrifying ordeal.
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Parasitic Worm in Walrus Meat Infects Ten People in Alaska
Ten people in Alaska were recently infected with a relatively rare parasitic worm that they got from eating walrus meat. By Rachael Rettner.
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Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on universal basic income after a trip to Alaska
The Facebook CEO remarked in a recent post that Alaska's approach to basic income "may be a lesson for the rest of the country as well."
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‘It came up from behind them and attacked’: Biologists ‘courageous’ in battle against bear
Erin Johnson, 27, of Anchorage, was killed Monday by a black bear while she was doing contract work for Pogo Mine in Interior Alaska.This was the second fatal bear attack in a two day span.
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Trump Budget Axes Alaska’s Sea Grant Program
The proposed U.S. federal budget would cancel a program that provides support to coastal Alaskan communities with everything from monitoring shoreline erosion to maintaining healthy ecosystems.
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U.S. Air Force intercepts Russian bombers, fighter jets near Alaska, report says
The U.S. Air Force jets reportedly intercepted a pair of Russian bombers and two Russian fighter jets 50 miles southwest of Chariot, Alaska on Thursday. Lucas Tomlinson, Fox New's Pentagon and State Department producer, reported that two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers and two Su-35 fighter jets entered the Alaska Air Defense Zone early Thursday and were given an immediate escort out of the area by the U.S. Air Force. read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.787340
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It’s Done: Trump Signs Law Allowing Slaughter of Alaskan Bear Cubs & Wolf Pups
On April 3, 2017, President Donald Trump signed House Joint Resolution 69 (HJR 69) into law. The legislation rescinds the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) 2016 Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule (Refuge Rule). The Refuge Rule was enacted to protect native carnivores on Alaska’s refuges from the state’s Board of Game (BOG) predator management program, which allows practices such as the killing of bears with cubs and wolves with pups, as well as the hunting of animals from aircraft, among other things.
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Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Yukon, Alaska and causes power outages
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit Yukon and Alaska at about 5:30 a.m. local time today, causing power outages and shaking people awake.
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Trump lifts ban on hunting hibernating bears
The state of Alaska is home to 16 U.S. national wildlife refuges and a vast variety of iconic animals — two of which are now fair game for hunters. A joint bill from the U.S. House and Senate, signed off by President Donald Trump on Monday, revokes an Obama-era rule that bans "predator control" hunting on Alaska's refuges. The ban protected hibernating bears from being hunted, along with wolf cubs in dens. It also protected these animals from being targeted from helicopters.
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Alaska's big telecoms say they won't sell consumer data after Senate internet privacy vote
Consumer privacy advocates are concerned after the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution that will roll back privacy rules the Federal Communications Commission approved last year, but the two largest Alaska-based telecommunications companies say their customers won't be affected. A win for the telecommunications industry, the measure would undo rules not yet in effect that would have provided "heightened protection for sensitive consumer information" and require...
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State assembles Narcan 'rescue kits' in hopes of preventing overdose deaths
In the storage room of a Wasilla boutique, 35 volunteers worked a makeshift assembly line Thursday, putting together kits to fight heroin overdose and hoping to save lives. Much of the work was done by people recovering from drug addiction. The crew assembled 1,500 rescue kits, each with nasal spray doses of the drug naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, which reverses the effect of opioids. Getting the rescue drug into the hands of the people closest to the addicts at risk is an ongoing project run by the state's Department of Health and Social Services.
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