Anchorage, Alaska—Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Thursday that four Point Hope residents were sentenced in United States Magistrate Court in Fairbanks, for charges stemming from their involvement in the illegal taking of walruses near Cape Lisburne, Alaska in September of 2015. The court accepted sentencing recommendations from the tribal government, Native Village of Point […]
About 1,000 years ago, Norse explorer Leif Ericson bumped into the New World at Newfoundland. The old world was filling up, with 300,000 people living in the Roman capital of Constantinople. Up here in Alaska, the ancestors of today’s coastal Natives were quietly having one of the more successful runs in human history. The Thule […]
A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that air temperature in 2015 across the Arctic was well above average with temperature anomalies over land more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit above average, the highest since records began in 1900. Increasing air and sea surface temperatures, decreasing sea ice extent and Greenland ice sheet mass, and changing behavior of […]
It was announced on Friday by U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler and Ryan Noel, the USFWS Special Agent in Charge, that their investigation into the Walrus deaths discovered in mid-September in the Cape Lisbourne area has discovered that some of the walrus deaths were definitely human-caused. They also report that they believe they have identified […]