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A symposium from 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Saturday at the University of Alaska Southeast’s Egan Lecture Hall will explore Arctic climate, nuclear weapons, environmental, and local and global stability.

The exercise sought to hone Navy EOD and diver skills within the chilly confines of a simulated Arctic environment.

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Ongoing series of calls with counterparts. well have a more detailed readout of that call later, the call just concluded. so i dont have much context to provide for you there. now, on another note, approximately 3,000 u.s. marines will join some 30,000 military forces from 27 nato ally and partner nations for the norwegian led exercise cold response. which kicks off monday the 14th of march. this is the ninth iteration of this multidomain extreme cold weather exercise. designed to enhance our co...

Phone call with the ukrainian defense minister as one of his calls with counter parts. well have more on the call later. i just concluded. i dont have much to provide there for you. on another note, approximately 3,000 u.s. marines will join 30,000 military forces from 27 may toe ally and partner nations for the norwegian led exercise cold response, which kicks off monday, march 14. this is a ninth iteration of this multi-domain extreme cold weather exercise designed to enhance our capabilities ...

5 and they have moved in to help this country. today we saw the enemy. and then we were with the u.s. marine who were planning a counterattack. the fictional enemy doesnt have a real name but the reality is everyone who were talking here, the enemy were describing sounds like russia. they have air defense systems, tanks, the same things weve been watching russia use in the invasion of ukraine. and the way that the nato members who we are talking to here, yes, this is an exercise but the reality ...

Russia has successfully launched its first satellite to monitor the Arctics climate and environment, the countrys space corporation Roscosmos said in a statement. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the "Arktika-M" satellite on board blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.55 a.m. on Sunday, Roscosmos said. The Arktika-M spacecraft was delivered to the orbit at 12.14 p.m., Xinhua news agency quoted the space corporation as further saying in the statement. The creation of a s...

As a nation, seriously. joining us, elizabeth birnbaum, director of the u.s. minerals management service at the time of the deep water oil disaster. i appreciate your time. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> have we gotten any better at cleaning up oil spills, particularly after the deepwater horizon disaster? have we had any technological breakthroughs in cleanup? >> there havent been any technological breakthroughs, and really the technology for cleaning up oil spills hasnt improved much ...

Same technology. and again, if you do that in an environment where half of the sea is covered with ice, nobody quite knows how any of those technologies work in that environment. >> looking at shells experience in 2012 and early 2013 of trying -- trying to set up drilling practices in the arctic, they -- as far as i could tell -- were considered to be the best at the industry for trying to do something like that. my -- when i look at their record just as a layman, i see a sort of comedy of error...

Out, the report calls for planned and controlled field releases of oil in the arctic to help us understand how oil will behave in that environment. what could possibly go wrong? we are drilling places in this country that we never used to drill before. oil that used to be considered too hard to get, we now think we are totally capable of going to get it. we are now at least willing to go get it. from the scandal-famous teapot dome in wyoming to a mile under the sea off louisiana to right through...