News and Events
Everyday we upload the most recent articles (and even blogs!) about Alaska and its environment. Some of the articles are more focused on Alaska than others, but all offer some perspective on the wilderness issues that we care about.
Keep coming back to find the latest news!
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Keep coming back to read the about the adventures of our friends Erin McKittrick and Bretwood Higman as they journey through Alaskan lands at the heart of controversy and share on-the-ground information, photos, and stories with the public.
Alaska Environmental News
- John McCain has selective memory about global warming efforts - Los Angeles Times
- Global warming effects pervasive: study - Ottawa Citizen
- Bush says Saudi oil boost doesn't solve US problem - The Associated Press
- Interior Department to hold Alaska oil lease sale - International Herald Tribune
- Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland (Environmental News Network)
- Alaska work group eyes local effects of climate change (Alaska Journal of Commerce)
- Polar bear listed as threatened species because of global warming (International Herald Tribune)
- Mark Begich: Changing Views at Ground Zero for Global Warming (HuffingtonPost)
- Alaska: Gasoline Averaging $4 a Gallon (New York Times)
- Interior Department to hold Alaska oil lease sale (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge News
- McCain's Balancing Act On The Environment - CBS News
- US government bans oil development in Alaskan Arctic area - Mongabay.com
- Four Better Options Than Drilling in Alaska - RedOrbit
- Alaska senators push ANWR drilling - KTUU
- San Francisco (The San Francisco Examiner)
- Despoiling refuge for oil is futile (Las Vegas Sun)
- Polar explorer Steger says polar bears' new status highlights the dangers of global warming (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
- Bush says Saudi oil boost doesn't solve US problem (AP via Yahoo! News)
National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska News
- Shareholders Ask ConocoPhillips To Avoid Areas of Alaska - SustainableBusiness.com
- Asialuk Ruth Kunnana Mary Piliaruaq Woods - Arctic Sounder
- Interior Department to hold Alaska oil lease sale - International Herald Tribune
- BLM-Alaska Releases Supplemental Final Plan for Northeast National ... - 7thSpace Interactive (press release)
- Feds plan NPR-A lease sale, protect lake (Anchorage Daily News)
- BLM announces leasing plan for northeastern NPRA (Alaska Public Radio Network)
- Congress urges Bush to halt oil reserve shipments (Journal Inquirer)
- Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland (Environmental News Network)
Offshore Alaska News
- Story tools presented by - National Post
- Institute for Tropical Environmental Studies - The Island (subscription)
- U.S. offers protection for polar bears (San Jose Mercury News)
- Polar bears to be protected (The Monterey County Herald)
- US lists polar bears as threatened species - AFP
- Poison ice - Salon
- World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows (Guardian Unlimited)
- US lists polar bears as threatened (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
- More research needed to protect subsistence from offshore oil rush - Arctic Sounder
- Art Review Nature?s Struggle to Survive - New York Times
- Polar bears listed as threatened (TVNZ)
- US lists polar bears as threatened (AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Alaska Rainforest News
- Fallon Campaign: Differences between Fallon and Boswell - IowaPolitics.com (press release)
- Tougher in Alaska on History, not for wussies - Monsters and Critics.com
- How's Alaska doing? Money isn't full measure of progress - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)
- Alaska News Nightly: May 6, 2008 - Alaska Public Radio Network
- Tongass plan appeals call for change - KRBD
- a tough sell - Petersburg Pilot
- Decision Signed on Iyouktug Timber Sales Near Hoonah - SitNews
- Couple's RV Pilgrimage Never Misses the Forests for the Trees - ABC News
