The Arctic strategic environment is changing profoundly, and the United States must pay greater attention and dedicate more resources to this crucial area, said Iris A. Ferguson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Arctic and Global Resilience. Ferguson addressed the increased attention that the People’s Republic of China has in the Arctic. She spoke at […]
(Anchorage, AK) – After a decade-long legal dispute about securing State trails over federal lands, on Dec. 2 the U.S. District Court in Alaska accepted a consent decree between the State and the federal Bureau of Land Management that recognizes the existence of State-owned trails through a BLM-managed Wild and Scenic River Corridor near Chicken, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison and three years’ supervised release after he was convicted by a federal jury on Nov. 21, 2024, of cyberstalking a woman for four years. According to court documents, between 2016 and 2020, Rolando Hernandez-Zamora, 41, stalked the victim, […]
Woods Hole, Mass. – The overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the land loss from any single one of these climate hazards, scientists say. While 75 years of aerial and satellite observations have established coastal erosion as an increasing […]