The U.S. Revenue Cutter Thetis moored to sea ice near King Island, Alaska, in 1903.Courtesy of Coast Guard Museum Northwest Our knowledge of the dwindling sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean comes mostly through satellites, which since 1979 have imaged the sea ice from above. The University of Washington’s Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean and […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan is no longer collecting data showing the Afghan government steadily losing ground to the Taliban, telling a U.S. government watchdog the information was “of limited decision-making value.” The so-called district-level stability assessments, which measure the number of the country’s districts under government or insurgent control or influence, […]
Former oil lobbyist Bernhardt, likely nominee to be the next Secretary of the Interior, is known for altering/omitting Arctic Refuge data during the Bush administration Washington — Alaska Wilderness League conservation director Kristen Miller issues the following statement on yesterday’s revelations from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) that memos from the U.S. Fish and […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — In 2018, technology firms such as Facebook and Google faced more scrutiny and negative press over their handling of data breaches and online speech. The issue may mean new rules and more regulations in the future. The question of who can access personal user data through technology caused many people to rethink […]