The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a $5.6 million, five-year grant to establish a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site along the northern Alaskan coast that will focus on the interactions between land and ocean that shape coastal ecosystems in the Arctic over different time scales. Researchers at the Beaufort Sea Lagoons LTER site will […]
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. federal courts have issued temporary restraining orders against President Donald Trump’s second try at using an executive order to limit who is allowed to enter the country. A judge in Hawaii blocked both the order’s suspension of refugee admissions and its ban on issuing new visas to people from a group of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will produce evidence “very soon” that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his Trump Tower headquarters in New York in the weeks before last November’s election. Top leaders of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee say Trump’s allegation is unfounded, but late Wednesday he told Fox News his administration “will […]
Polar bears are listed as a threatened species as the ice-covered ocean they depend on for hunting and transportation becomes scarce. Changes in the Arctic Ocean are also affecting the humans who have called this area home and hunted across the landscape for thousands of years. Research from the University of Washington, the U.S. Fish […]