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Melting Ice Worries Arctic Eight, But Opens Opportunities

October 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Melting Ice Worries Arctic Eight, But Opens Opportunities

WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2022 (ENS) – Today, the Biden Administration released a new 10-year National Strategy for the Arctic Region, which is melting at least three times faster than [...]

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ALASKA: Denali National Park to Fix Road Closed By Landslide

January 24, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on ALASKA: Denali National Park to Fix Road Closed By Landslide

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 24, 2022 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of the Interior is making $25 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law available to accelerate a long-term solution [...]

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Undersea Volcano Erupts in Tonga, Triggering Pacific Tsunami

January 15, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Undersea Volcano Erupts in Tonga, Triggering Pacific Tsunami

HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – A tsunami advisory was issued across the Pacific for the coasts of Australia, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington after an undersea volcano [...]

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ALASKA: Cook Inlet Federal Waters Closed to Commercial Salmon Fishing

November 5, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on ALASKA: Cook Inlet Federal Waters Closed to Commercial Salmon Fishing

KENAI, Alaska, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Biden Administration has closed the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing for the 2022 Cook Inlet commercial salmon [...]

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ALASKA: Salmon Disaster Averted as Neighbor Helps Neighbor

October 2, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on ALASKA: Salmon Disaster Averted as Neighbor Helps Neighbor

BETHEL, Alaska, October 2, 2021 (ENS) – The 56 tribal communities living in Alaska on one of the world’s largest deltas is witnessing the loss of their customary salmon run [...]

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ALASKA: Court Halts Major Arctic Drilling Project

August 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on ALASKA: Court Halts Major Arctic Drilling Project

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 19, 2021 (ENS) – The Alaska Federal District Court Wednesday vacated the approval of a large oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan [...]

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Oregon Seabird Wins Endangered Status Protection from Logging, Climate

July 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Oregon Seabird Wins Endangered Status Protection from Logging, Climate

SALEM, Oregon, July 22, 2021 (ENS) – A rare seabird that feeds offshore but nests in mossy, coastal old-growth forests has just been listed as Endangered in Oregon. With this [...]

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Biden Protects World’s Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest

July 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Biden Protects World’s Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest

WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2021 (ENS) – Across the entire 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, full Roadless Rule protections are being restored and there [...]

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World’s Best Wild Salmon Run Protected From Huge Mine

November 30, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on World’s Best Wild Salmon Run Protected From Huge Mine

 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, November 29, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit to the proposed Pebble Mine, a giant copper and gold mine in [...]

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Trump Opens Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging

October 29, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Opens Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging

 

WASHINGTON, DC, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump’s administration has finalized plans to reverse roadless protections for the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska that have been [...]

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Trump Again Assaults Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

September 14, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Again Assaults Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

 

JUNEAU, Alaska, September 14, 2020 (ENS) – The Trump administration has announced plans for another timber sale that would destroy more than 5,100 acres of critical old-growth habitat in [...]

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Trump Opens Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas

August 17, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Opens Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas

 

WASHINGTON, DC, August 17, 2020 (ENS) – The Trump administration completed plans Monday to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, a move that will [...]

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