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Paralytic shellfish poisoning moves beyond Alaska's shoreline
Alaska Public Media
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July 8, 2025
Just back from the beach in Sand Point, Jackie McConnell carried a bucket of clams and cockles into her motel room at the Anchor Inn. McConnell is the project coordinator for the Knik Tribe's program for monitoring paralytic shellfish poisoning,...
Google’s AI ambitions push emissions far from net-zero target
Sustainability News
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July 11, 2025
Google’s promise to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 looks increasingly out of reach. In its latest sustainability report highlighted by The Guardian, the company said emissions were up 51% from 2019 to 2024. But a separate analysis claims...
Alex Gimarc: Sustainable aquaculture in Alaska?
Must Read Alaska
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July 8, 2025
By ALEX GIMARC I received a heads up last week from Craig Medred, announcing a World Bank publication that spoke in glowing terms about the role aquaculture is going to play in feeding a growing worldwide population. It predicts as many as 22...
Climate: The Great Leap Backward
Forbes
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Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. getty Inpassing President Trump’s budget bill Congressional Republicans last week ignored warnings that eliminating...
Opinion: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has poached nearly 200 brown bears in three years
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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A brown bear in Katmai National Park. (iStock / Getty Images) We expect the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Alaska Board of Game to base their wildlife management regulations on sound science. We also expect they will be transparent and...
Alaska Man Monday - Everyone Loves a Parade!
Red State
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July 7, 2025
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. Summer’s here in full bloom in the Great Land, and with it comes tourists. Now, we like tourists. They contribute a lot to our local...
Launch Alaska sues U.S. Navy over canceled $5 million grant
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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An Alaska nonprofit is suing the U.S. Navy over the cancellation of a $5 million grant that it says was arbitrarily terminated by the Trump administration. In an 18-page complaint filed in Alaska’s U.S District Court, Launch Alaska argued there...
Seabird Research by Bucknell Featured in National Geographic
WKOK - Pennsylvania
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July 11, 2025
LEWISBURG — Bucknell University biology professor Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks and Bucknell graduate Sierra Pete will be featured in the August issue of National Geographic for their research on black-legged kittiwakes in Alaska. Since 2016,...
How a billionaire fossil fuel investor became a climate crusader
Corporate Knights
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July 8, 2025
Tom Steyer is on a mission. It began in 2006, when the San Francisco hedge-fund manager flew his family to Alaska to show them a glaciated valley he’d fallen in love with 25 years earlier. But summers had changed in Alaska. There was no ice on the...
Military Taps Alaska Air Force Base for First Nuclear Microreactor
Government Technology
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July 8, 2025
(TNS) — A remote Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor under a Defense Department pilot project. Eielson Air Force Base, located near Fairbanks, was named in June by the...
Rep. Errington pushes for a sustainable and safer approach to lithium battery waste
The Statehouse File - Indiana
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In cities like Fort Wayne and Muncie, improperly disposed lithium batteries have sparked fires in garbage trucks and solid waste facilities. This has inspired Rep. Sue Errington to enter the “research phase” of authoring legislation that focuses...
Alaska’s 1st Bitcoin conference held in Juneau
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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July 7, 2025
The state’s first Bitcoin conference took place this weekend at Centennial Hall, bringing Bitcoin enthusiasts from around the country to Juneau. The conference was a networking opportunity for Bitcoin supporters. Among the Alaska speakers were...
Tundra fire on Alaska’s North Slope is among the biggest in recent years
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Smoke from the Ikpikpuk Fire is seen on June 23 in this satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. (Image provided by Ben Jones/University of Alaska Fairbanks) A lightning-sparked fire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the...
Tundra fire on Alaska’s North Slope among the biggest in recent years
Alaska Beacon
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July 8, 2025
A lightning-sparked fire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope in eight years. The Ikpikpuk Fire, which bears the name of a 195-mile river that flows north into the Arctic Ocean, was...
Alaska nonprofit sues Department of the Navy over canceled grant
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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The International Cooperative Engagement Program for Polar Research Situational Awareness Working Group conducted a three-day workshop April 29 to May 1, 2025, an event which brought together researchers, operators and defense professionals from...
What's Contaminating Water Across All 50 States? Full List
Newsweek
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July 11, 2025
Six contaminants found in drinking water across every U.S state exceeded legal guidelines set by the federal government, a study revealed. In the 50,000 water systems surveyed in the study by the Environmental Working Group (EWS) between 2021 and...
After Doha: Why Gulf Risk Is Now Climate, Not Weather
Forbes
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The Gulf Weathered War's Storm, But What If Security Climate Changed? Every LNG molecule still runs the strait.Getty Images One missile struck near Al Udeid Air Base at 22:17 on 23 June 2025. That impact rewrote risk calculations for every company...
Alaska nonprofit sues Trump administration over canceled grant
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Wind turbines sit on a hill near Kotzebue on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (Loren Holmes / ADN) An Alaska nonprofit that supports innovative projects and startup companies is suing the U.S. Navy over a grant that it says was “arbitrarily terminated” by...
Health Watch: Fairbanks leaders focus on community health with clean air room
Alaska's News Source
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July 11, 2025
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - As wildfires began pushing smoke into the Fairbanks North Star Borough this summer, the need for clean air has pushed some residents and visitors to the Noel Wien Public Library, where they can find relief. “Our...
Smoke from wildfires chokes Central and Eastern Alaska, air quality worsens
Your Alaska Link
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Numerous active wildfires in the Central Interior are producing significant smoke, filling the skies over Central and Eastern Alaska. Officials say the worst conditions tend to occur overnight and during the early morning, when cooler temperatures...