Ketchikan, AK – In a powerful statement of resistance, President Gloria Ilsxileé Stáng Burns of the Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) condemned ongoing efforts to lift protections from the Tongass National Forest, warning that the future of Indigenous communities and ecosystems alike hang in the balance. “We, the people of Kichxáan, are the Tongass,” Burns declared. […]
A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time gained insights into a current in the Barents Sea which affects Arctic sea ice In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent. […]
SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) departed Seattle Thursday, beginning its annual Arctic deployment. The crew aboard Healy, a 420-foot icebreaker, will support two distinct high-latitude missions to study the formation and movement of sea ice and the pathways followed by Atlantic and Pacific waters in the Arctic, and ocean circulation […]
The federal judicial nominee supports signing “a blank check for Trump to control every agency,” said one government watchdog. A whistleblower complaint alleging that top Justice Department official Emil Bove pressured government lawyers to ignore court orders was a primary concern for Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as the panel held […]