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Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon Details Share This You can hear them coming long before you can see them. It is like a low, rhythmic singing. Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer describes it in his book Being Caribou as thrumming. You can hear them coming long before you can see them. It is like a low, rhythmic singing. Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer describes it in his book Being Caribou as thrumming. It is the sound collectively m...

Analysis Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon In the renewed debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one troubling impact of oil development has been overlooked: Disrupting the annual caribou migration will have a profound effect on the soil and release even more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. You can hear them coming long before you can see them. It is like a low, rhythmic singing. Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer describes it in his boo...

Tue, 02/16/2021 - 1:23pm The leaders of Alaska’s development bank have a deal to finance remaining preconstruction work for the Ambler mining district access road with the company leading exploration in the region. The 50-50 cost-share agreement approved Feb. 10 by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority board of directors and signed with Ambler Metals, a joint venture of Trilogy Metals, authorizes up to $70 million of spending on the Ambler road until state officials decide wh...

When the temperature plummets in Interior Alaska, you can still work and play outside — with the right gear Published February 13 Share on Facebook Print article It is February and winter has finally tightened its hold over Alaska’s Interior. It has taken a while. January is usually Alaska’s coldest month. The majority of cold-weather records have been set in that month. However, before breathing a sigh of relief, look back to Feb. 25, 1954 and you’ll see that Allakaket, on the ed...

Comments They’re Arctic Survivors. How Will They Adapt to Climate Change?Skip to Comments The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. They’re Arctic Survivors. How Will They Adapt to Climate Change? Photographs by Peter Mather February 11, 2021 On Alaska’s North Slope, treeless and snow-shrouded for much of the year, it isn’t easy being a wolverine. The sinewy, solitary animals survive through...

4:27 The decisions for opening and closing hunting grounds and setting harvest limits are decided by the more than 100 Alaskans who sit on 10 regional advisory councils that inform the Federal Subsistence Board. “They’re the ones that are on the ground and making these observations based upon a lifetime of experience,” said Jim Fall, who until recently was the state’s head of subsistence research. He recently retired from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game after 39 years of service. ...

Trilogy Approves Entering into Development Funding Agreement with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority News provided by Share this article VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE American: TMQ) ("Trilogy" or the "Company") has provided approval for Ambler Metals LLC ("Ambler Metals"), the joint venture operating company equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Limited (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32; ADR: SOUHY) ("South32"), to enter into an Ambler A...

Beads on the tundra: The first U.S. import from Europe? February 11th |     Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archaeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades. Made in Venice, Italy, the tiny blue beads might have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the skin pockets of aboriginal adventurers to reach the Bering Strait. There, someone ferried them across the ocean to A...

The beads were found at three sites in the Brooks Range with is the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska: located entirely within the  Arctic Circle . The new study by  Michael Kunz  of the  University of Alaska Museum of the North , and  Robin Mills  of the  Bureau of Land Management , was published in the journal  American Antiquity . The researchers assert that the rare glass Italian objects are among “the oldest European-made items ever discovered i...

Venetian beads discovered in Alaska predate Columbus by decades Dan Avery For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Tiny glass beads from Venice made their way to Alaska decades before Christopher Columbus arrival in the New World. The beads, the color and size of blueberries, were uncovered in a house pit in Punyik Point, a seasonal Inuit camp near the Continental Divide in Alaskas Brooks Range. Archaeologists determined the objects were created between 1440...