Two rural schools on Kodiak Island are facing the ax and will be closed down if enrollment does not increase, one of them for the second time, the Kodiak Island Borough School Superintendent Larry LeDoux has revealed. According to the reports, if attendance falls below 10 students in any given year, schools face closure at that […]
Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is not enough to limit global warming to a level that wouldn’t risk young people’s future, according to a new study by a team of scientists who say we need negative emissions. Measures such as reforestation could accomplish much of the needed CO2 removal from the atmosphere, but continued high fossil fuel emissions […]
Federal fisheries managers have reduced the allowable incidental catch of Chinook salmon in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, in a policy change aimed at boosting returns of kings to western Alaska rivers. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s approval of the action on April 11, at its spring meeting in Anchorage, would reduce the prohibited […]