Alaska News
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Scientists mapping the seafloor off the coast of Alaska have identified a segment of the subduction zone they say signals the potential for a major tsunami in an area that normally would be considered benign.
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By AFP
Fairbanks -
When ministers from the eight states of the Arctic and representatives of the region's native peoples met last month in Alaska, evidence of global warming was all around them.
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Anchorage -
Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are saying a toxic algae bloom could have caused the deaths of 44 whales in 2015 in the Gulf Coast of Alaska, but they are not ruling out other possibilities.
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The Arctic region hold great allure for global oil companies, despite opposition from green groups and Obama's 2016 ban on drilling in federal Arctic waters. However, over the past year, huge oil reserves have been found on Alaska's North Slope.
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Federal regulators are preparing to shut down an oil well on Alaska's North Slope near Deadhorse tonight. The wellhead cracked Friday and sent up a plume of crude oil before it froze and the initial leak stopped. It is still spewing natural gas.
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Anchorage -
Hilcorp Energy is already under investigation for two underwater pipeline leaks in Alaska's Cook Inlet. On Friday, the company confirmed they are now dealing with a third pipeline leak.
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Some GOP lawmakers and mining companies are banking on the EPA's new head, Scott Pruitt reversing an earlier veto by the agency of a controversial mine project in Alaska's Bristol Bay, despite local opposition and the threat to sockeye salmon fisheries.
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The same strain of avian flu virus that led to the deaths of 50 million chickens and turkeys in the U.S. last year has been found in the country for the first time in nearly 14 months, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Bernie Sanders soundly defeated Hillary Clinton in Alaska's Democratic caucuses on Saturday, giving his campaign a much-needed boost as he seeks to disrupt Clinton's path to the party's presidential nomination.
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San Francisco -
Northern California salmon fisherman face severe restrictions on catch this spring after lower-than-expected numbers of the fish have been counted offshore.
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By AFP
Washington -
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Alaska early Sunday, US seismologists said.The US Geological Survey, updating its earlier location for the quake, said it struck at 1030 GMT and was centered about 83 kilometers (51 miles) east of Old Iliamna....
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Ketchikan -
Ketchikan, a historic town built along the seafront on Tongass Narrows, is known as "the salmon capital of the world," but its past evokes an infamous village which in the first half of the 19th Century was known as “the Pacific Coast's wickedest city".
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Juneau -
Alaskan authorities in the capital city are investigating the death of Juneau's recently-elected mayor, while simultaneously deflecting rumors surrounding the mysterious case.
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Sea otters tickle our imaginations. Their charming antics make them the clowns of the sea, and for those of us fortunate enough to live alongside them, they are enchanting. The sight of mother otters cuddling young ones make them even more endearing.
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Haines -
Amid the long tally of books that emerge each year, it's always a surprise to see a little book of just over 150 pages make it to a best seller's list.
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By AFP
London -
Royal Dutch Shell is ending its controversial offshore exploration in Alaska after failing to find sufficient amounts of oil and gas, the energy giant said Monday.
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According to a new report that was published on Tuesday, researchers have unearthed a new species of plant-eating dinosaur.
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By AFP
Anchorage -
US President Barack Obama has warned that climate change is no longer a problem of the future, but rather a challenge for now and one that will define the next century as he made a landmark visit to Alaska.
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By AFP
Juneau -
A sightseeing plane crashed into a granite rock face in southeast Alaska killing all nine people on board, US police said.
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An Alaska wildfire along a main highway between Achorage and Fairbanks grew by a thousand acres on Wednesday. The Sockeye fire, named for a street in Willow where it started on Sunday, has now blackened 12 square miles.
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Two fast-growing Alaska wildfires have already destroyed 45 homes and forced a number of evacuations as well as restricting traffic on a major highway connecting two of the state's largest cities on Tuesday.
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Juneau -
Perhaps unfairly known for dark, cold and bleakness, Alaska has recorded its hottest weather in 91 years, and this is only the start of the summer.
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Ice age camel bones, discovered in the Yukon, are rearranging the camel family tree.
Until their extinction around 13,000, western camels were quite common in western North America.
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Fairbanks -
At least four Fairbanks residents called the Alaska Department of Fish and Game this past week reporting some rather strange sightings. Lamprey eels were falling out of the sky, leaving some people to wonder if this was a new weather phenomenon.
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It seems that being a politician these days is really tough. Alaska GOP Rep. Don Young found out how the hard way when he suggested Thursday that the best way to solve homelessness was wolves. Would this be considered shooting yourself in the foot?
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Alaska became the third American state to allow the recreational use of marijuana, following in the steps of Colorado and Washington state -- and soon to be joined by Oregon.
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Lying just north of Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark in southwest Alaska is Bristol Bay. It is home to half the world's sockeye salmon. Below the marsh and shrub of the bay lies another kind of wealth, ore, several kinds of ore, including gold.
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While some states have already banned or regulated the use of drones for hunting, even more states have bills on the books regarding the use of this controversial procedure.
Alaska is one such state that has banned the use of drones for hunting wildlife.
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Anchorage -
A drilling company has pleaded guilty to environmental and maritime crimes in federal court in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday, after reaching an agreement with prosecutors earlier this month.
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Anchorage -
After a tense race, Independent candidate Bill Walker has won the Alaska race for governor, and that's largely due to the fact that he launched an aggressive campaign against Republican Governor Sean Parnell, The Huffington Post reports.
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Crested Auklets, Least Auklets and other seabirds nest at Main Talus, Buldir Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska - Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge YouTube
Firefighters in Alaska are battling two wildfires today. YouTube
Location of the major fires in Alaska. Mindreader
Melting Sea Ice Reveals Prior Control Efforts and the Advance of Erosion toward the Seawall Being Constructed in
the Village of Shishmaref, Alaska, June 2008. GAO
Volksvagen beetle of the unknown traveller from Chile in Vancouver, Canada.
The Sockeye fire has burned over 12 square miles along the parks Highway in Alaska. Mindreader
Alaska's iconic king crab. Brad Bowerman
Archaeologists working at the Rising Whale site at Cape Espenberg, Alaska University of Colorado
Pavlof Volcano, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The summit of Mt. Cleveland, Alaska steaming Chad Hults / US Geological Survey geologist[
Debris from the Japanese tsunami last year. Video screen capture
"Find The Good - Unexpected Life Lessons From A Small-Town Obituary Writer" is author Heather Lende's third book. Courtesy of Bear Star Web designs and Heather Lende
Digging out the boats on and off the water. Valdez, Alaska. Jan. 13, 2012 Suzanne Hickman
Seafloor images were collected aboard the research vessel Marcus G. Langseth, the nation's main ship for academic seismic research, run by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Photo of one of the teams in the March 6, 2010 ceremonial start of the Iditarod dog sled race. Frank Kovalchek
Alaska and the northern Arctic Circle Chukchi Sea. Even in summer 2013, dense sea ice monopolizes Chukchi Sea, though now, in February winter of 2015, deep blue ocean has replaced white Arctic sea ice. NASA / Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Valdez, Alaska snowstorm. January 2012 Courtesy of Suzanne Hickman
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