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Environment News tagged with alaska

Polar Bears Vs. Oil With Alaska in the Balance
Environment  (tags: drilling, oil, destruction, alaska, polar bears, habitat destruction, governor, wildlife )

Simone
- 11 days ago - thenewstribune.com
Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's continued prosperity.
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White House Protects Polar Bears With Alaska 'Critical Habitat' Designation
Environment  (tags: animals, habitat, Alaska, polar bears, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 36 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The Obama administration bowed to environmental groups and added a layer of protection for polar bear today, setting aside 200,000 square miles of Alaskan coastline and waters as their "critical habitat".
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4th Grader Harpoons Whale
Environment  (tags: whaling, alaska )

Claudia
- 50 days ago - community.adn.com
This is Paul Patkotak of Barrow. He is a young harpooner for Panigeo crew. Paul harpooned this whale and once he harpooned it, it officially died. The whale was 32'7". Paul is the son of Maria & Ellis Patkotak and he is only in 4th grade!
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Government Rejects Oil Drilling Deal in Alaska Refuge
Environment  (tags: environment, oil and gas, Alaska, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 132 days ago - reuters.com
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a controversial land trade that would have allowed oil and gas drilling in part of a national wildlife refuge in Alaska.
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As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It's Land That's Rising
Environment  (tags: Alaska, ocean, glaciers, globalwarming, climate-change, CO2emissions, ecosystems, environment, humans, nature, conservation, salmon, forest, tectonics )

Tom
- 191 days ago - nytimes.com
Global warming conjures images of rising seas that threaten coastal areas. But in Juneau, as almost nowhere else in the world, climate change is having the opposite effect: As the glaciers here melt, the land is rising, causing the sea to retreat.
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Drilling the Arctic for Energy: Does Tapping Alaskan Oil to Increase Energy Independence Come at Our Peril?
Environment  (tags: energy, drilling, arctic, alaska, Exxon Valdez, oil, hazard, spills, tankers, saftey, security, alaska, fish, birds, animals, business, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, wildlife, protection, environment )

Tom
- 247 days ago - sciam.com
Plans to greatly expand fossil-fuel exploration and retrieval in the Far North have caused environmentalists to urg lawmakers to reinstate a ban on new offshore drilling for oil and gas in the land that extends off of North America's coasts.
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Oil Terminal a Concern as Alaska Volcano Rumbles
Environment  (tags: alaska, chevron, fisheries, protection, oil, terminal, storage, trees, ash, volcano, erupting, ecosystems, nature )

Tom
- 247 days ago - google.com
An Alaska volcano continued to rumble Tuesday amid new concerns that eruptions and mud flows will damage a nearby oil terminal where about 6 million gallons of crude are stored. "It makes no sense to store oil at the base of an erupting volcano."
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Valdez Ghost Haunts Exxon With Spill-Prone Ships
Environment  (tags: world, Exxon Valdez, oil, hazard, spills, tankers, saftey, security, alaska, fish, birds, animals, business, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, wildlife, protection, environment )

Tom
- 247 days ago - bloomberg.com
Exxon, the world's largest oil company, has kept using tankers with the "more accident-prone" one hull design even as 151 countries have decided two are better than one for preventing oil spills and pledged to ban single-hull vessels by 2015.
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Stick Your Damn Hand In It: 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie
Environment  (tags: Exxon_Valdez, Alaska, Oil_spill )

Just
- 248 days ago - gregpalast.com
She stuck it in, under the gravel of the beach at Sleepy Bay, her village's fishing ground. Gail's hand came up dripping with black, sickening goo. It could make you vomit. Oil from the Exxon Valdez.
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Remember the Exxon Valdez --Take Action Now !!!
Environment  (tags: oil, Alaska, habitat, environment, protection, ecosystems )

Cher
- 254 days ago - secure2.convio.net
U.S. activists: Urge the Obama administration to heed the lessons of the Exxon Valdez and remove Alaska's sensitive, wildlife-rich waters from an offshore drilling plan.
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Take Action ! Save the Tongass National Forest !
Environment  (tags: Tongass National Forest, old growth forest, clearcut logging, Alaska, environment, trees, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, nature, wildlife, animals )

Cher
- 273 days ago - nrdconline.org
Unless the Obama administration ends an illegal exemption from a landmark rule, timber companies could begin clearcut logging in Alaska's extraordinary old-growth rainforest.
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Alaskan Volcano Mount Redoubt Is Rumbling
Environment  (tags: volcano, volcanism, mount redoubt, alaska, u.s., environment, eruption, anchorage, humans, science, geology, research, tech, world, earth, news, atmosphere, health, jetstream, climate, energy, nature )

SirRobert
- 299 days ago - wsav.com
Geologists in Alaska are keeping a close eye on Mount Redoubt. They say rumblings coming from the volcano means an eruption is more than likely.
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Scott West Takes His Case to the Wall Street Journal
Environment  (tags: alaska, habitat, environment, animals, wildlife, water, humans, habitatdestruction, pollution, protection )

Jacquelin
- 372 days ago - seashepherd.org
Ex-EPA Official Faults Probe of BP Alaska Oil Spill. Head of Investigation Claims Justice Department Ended Inquiry Into 2006 Incidents Early, Forgoing Possible Felony Charges The former head of an EPA criminal probe into pipeline spills at a BP PLC oil
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Big Oil Gets Greedy - Files Suits to De-List Polar Bears as Endangered
Environment  (tags: polar bears, big oil, wildlife, Alaska, endangered species, oil industry, greed, ecosystem )

RC
- 453 days ago - star-telegram.com
The American Petroleum Institute has banded together with the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Mining Association & the American Iron & Steel Institute in a lawsuit aimed at removing polar bears from the endangered species list.
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Stop the Pebble Mine in Alaska
Environment  (tags: mining, alaska, pebble mine, environmental destruction, pollution )

Marc
- 672 days ago - wildlifeforever.org
Your support is needed to help stop the creation of one of the largest toxic waste lakes on earth.
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