Tag: Alaska
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Inupiat Woman Wins Goldman Prize for Leading Fight Against Arctic Drilling
"We would like to live a traditional culture life. We should be given that option."
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Zoo-Bound Bear Escapes Back Into the Wild
Just months away from her planned transfer to a zoo in Sweden, Shaguyik stunned her stewards by making a bold escape last week, the first time it's ever happened at the facility for injured and orphaned wildlife.
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Warming Arctic Means More Tundra Fires—And More Warming
New research reveals that tundra fires increase as the climate warms—and with the largest historically recorded tundra fire taking place in 2007, that's bad news.
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Yellow Cedar Die-off in Alaska Linked to Global Warming
Residents of Alaska and neighboring British Columbia have known for years that the cedars are dying. Now scientists know why.
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Collar Camera Offers Unique Glimpse of Life as a Grizzly Bear
They are regarded as among the most ferocious mammals on the planet, inspiring fear and awe throughout the lands they roam -- but as it turns out, your life probably is more eventful than a Grizzly's.
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Seals and Walruses Found Dead in Alaska with Mysterious Sores and Hair Loss: Scientists Baffled
Locals blame Fukushima radiation...and tests are underway.
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Ask Pablo: What Is The Greenest Booze?
Ask Pablo answers: What's the greenest kind of booze we can drink this holiday season?
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Giving Thanks for Successful Grassroots Action
Showing gratitude for some recent grassroots work.
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Permanently Protect the Arctic From Oil Drilling
How does a Wisconsinite who grows pickles on a hobby farm become an Arctic Hero?
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Mysterious Disease Spreading Among Arctic Seals
Beginning last July, officials from Alaska's Department of Wildlife Management began receiving reports of ringed seals showing signs of a mysterious, lesion-causing disease that has so far killed dozens of animals and inflicted
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Shell Oil Spill in North Sea has Loosed 55,000 Gallons So Far
Shell has released a statement saying that an accident on one of its rigs in the North Sea has led to 56,000 gallons of oil spilling out thus far. The oil giant is calling the disaster "significant", and it
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Mysterious Orange Goo on Alaskan Shores Turns Out to Be Possibly Toxic Fish Eggs
This one sounds like the beginning of a B movie- last week, the residents of Kivalina, Alaska were surprised to find a mysterious orange goo washing up on their shores. It was determined that
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Time To Ditch The Penny; It Is Useless and Bad For The Environment
Jeff recently asked Should We Ban the Penny to Help the Environment? As the things pile up in jars all over our house, I wonder why we bother having them at all, and I was curious how bad
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Scientists Warn of Lethal Shellfish in a Part of Alaska
Public health officials are warning that toxic algae is contaminating some Alaskan shellfish and the toxin could kill humans. High concentrations of the poisonous compound have been found in the Southeastern tip of the state, near
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Alaska Bans the Ridiculous 'Sport' of Tasing Wildlife
In an effort to prevent residents from partaking in one of the most idiotic pastimes imaginable, the government of Alaska has moved to ban 'tase-and-release' hunting. That's right, there was enough concern over folks stalking
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Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011 - First Congressional Reaction To Nuclear Doubts?
The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011, an update of a stalemated 2010
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Study Finds More Bears Opting For the Single Life
More and more brown bears are embracing the single life -- at least that's according to an extensive, decades-long study of the animals in Alaska's Kodiak wilderness. Researchers have observed a dramatic change in the bears'
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54 Jewelers Now Refuse to Buy Dirty Gold from Alaska's Pebble Mine
Industry opposition to the controversial mining project at Alaska's Bristol Bay is growing: by last May, dozens of jewelry retailers had vowed to not buy gold from what would be the country's largest open-pit mine and
