“We need a law on the books that will affirm these lands are not for sale, preserve the wilderness of the Coastal Plain, and uphold the sovereignty of Arctic Indigenous peoples,” said Sen. Ed Markey, one of the bill’s lead sponsors. Indigenous, climate, and conservation advocates on Wednesday welcomed the reintroduction of congressional legislation […]
After receiving a report of a taxi driver and the theft of his taxi, multiple Anchorage police officers responded to West 18th Avenue and Arctic Boulevard where the incident occurred on Monday evening. Some officers went to the victim and others immediately began looking for the stolen vehicle. The taxi driver told police that he […]
The Arctic Report Card, a compilation of northern science by researchers from all over the planet — most of them doing work in Alaska — came out in mid-December at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Chicago. In summary, what smart people predicted in 2006, during the first report card press conference, […]
Permafrost in Alaska has been warming and thawing at an increasing rate. The state is actually sinking a little in places. Soumitra Sakhalkar, a graduate research assistant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, has been using the global navigation satellite system to precisely measure just how much the surface is subsiding in some […]