Beavers and jet skis surprised four adventurers on their recent attempt to row through the Northwest Passage. Vancouver, British Columbia residents Kevin Vallely, Paul Gleeson, Frank Wolf and Denis Barnett are now back home after the team stopped short of its goal of gliding through the northern waterway on muscle power.
Since July, the Alaska Native News has run a four-part series on Jim Cobb-retriever environmental efforts to gain attention for decades of work to improve oil spill response. The month of September, Alaska native news will be, on occasion, giving an update on Jim Cobb’s continued struggle to have industry and government sponsored, the contacts […]
CREAMER’S FIELD, FAIRBANKS — “As this bird takes off, think about how they have to fly thousands and thousands of miles,†Tricia Blake said to 21 first-graders sitting on wooden benches surrounded by birch and balsam poplar trees.
BEAUFORT SEA — Members of the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, under the guidance of the Coast Guard’s recently released Arctic Strategy, worked with partner federal agencies and scientific organizations to successfully complete a simulated spilled oil response and recovery exercise aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy on the Arctic ice field Tuesday.