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Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds Alaska went big on New Year’s. First, on New Year’s Eve 2020, a superstorm spun its way through the North Pacific Ocean and into the Aleutian Islands. The twirling mass of gases surrounding Earth was more than 5,000 miles wide, its boundaries stretching from northern Japan to middle Alaska. That’s about 10 times the width of a typical hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The Alaska storm that covered a good por...

  BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now. We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificit...

“The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge faces its biggest threat yet.” Thats the warning issued by the National Audubon Society on Tuesday — a day before the Trump administration is set to sell oil and gas leasing rights in the refuges coastal plain, a biodiversity hotspot of critical importance to the Gwichin people and dubbed Americas Serengeti. Bids were submitted by the end of 2020. Its not clear, however, which oil or gas companies, if any, sought leases. The Bureau of La...

Trump will auction drilling rights to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post Jan. 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with the Brooks Range as a backdrop.U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service photo WASHINGTON - Trump administration officials will auction off oil and gas leases in Alaskas Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, capping Republicans decades-long quest to drill in one of the nations mos...

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A Chickadee’s Midwinter Roosting Place A black-capped chickadee on a cold Alaska day. Photo by Jim DeWitt During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights was a mystery until a biologist tracked them. Susan Sharbaugh spent many winter nights trying to find out how a creature as light as a handful of paperclips survived temperatures of 40 degrees be...

During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights was a mystery until a biologist tracked them. Susan Sharbaugh spent many winter nights trying to find out how a creature as light as a handful of paperclips survived temperatures of 40 degrees below zero. Sharbaugh is a biologist and a fan of the black-capped chickadee, one of the most unlikely resi...

Print article During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights was a mystery until a biologist tracked them. Susan Sharbaugh spent many winter nights trying to find out how a creature as light as a handful of paperclips survived temperatures of 40 degrees below zero. Sharbaugh is a biologist and a fan of the black-capped chickadee, one of the most ...

Dec 24, 2020 Dec 24, 2020 With one month left in office, the Trump administration is using the lame-duck session to expand oil and gas exploration in the farthest reaches of the Alaskan Arctic. Buried deep within the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act were provisions enabling the auctioning of leasing rights in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Opposition to drilling operations in the area by environmental groups and indigenous communities has been seemingly constant sinc...