ANCHORAGE – Tuesday, attorneys for 16 young Alaskans, including Alaska Natives, filed a petition for rehearing to the Alaska Supreme Court in the children’s constitutional climate case, Sagoonick v. State of Alaska. The petition for rehearing was filed in response to a split 3-2 decision on January 28th, where the Alaska Supreme Court denied the […]
A few hours of a December day may affect living things for years to come in the middle of Alaska. On Dec. 26, more than an inch of rain fell over a wide swath of the state. Much of the backcountry of Interior Alaska now has an ice sheet beneath a foot of fluffy snow. […]
“It is possible that the Arctic Ocean is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought,” said one of the study’s authors. New research published Wednesday revealed the Arctic Ocean has been warming for decades longer than scientists previously understood, raising fresh concerns as the polar region faces the growing threat of a total loss of […]
“Biden can’t be the climate president when he is actively selling our water to the highest bidder and lobbying oil states to produce more fossil fuels.” As the Biden administration moved ahead Wednesday with an auction of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas companies—the largest-ever sale of fossil fuel […]