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Optical components maker II-VI beat Wall Streets earnings per share estimate for the fourth quarter in a row. The company reported earnings of $0.73 a share on revenue of $787 million during the second quarter of its fiscal year 2021. About 62% of its revenue came from the communications market, where it sells a wide range of products – things like optical amplifiers, subsystems and coherent optics – to vendors like Ciena and ZTE. The company is realizing gains from its 2019 Finisar acquisi...

Judge puts plans for gravel construction and mining at large Alaska oil discovery on hold for up to 2 weeks Print article U..S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said in a decision on Saturday that she will temporarily prevent ConocoPhillips from opening a gravel mine or building a gravel road at the Willow oil discovery, after conservation groups appealed her decision last week allowing the work. The project is located in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, near the Alaska Native vill...

As Biden Issues Groundbreaking Climate Orders, Activists Push to Ban Fracking President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders after speaking about climate change issues in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker-Pool / Getty Images On Wednesday, the Biden administration delivered a second surge of orders responding to activist demands to address the climate emergency head-on at every level of the federal government. Like no mandat...

Alaskas National Petroleum Reserve is full of wildflowers and wildlife. Alaska Wilderness League This issue brief is part of a series outlining public lands in Alaska that are in danger of losing protection. Overview Since 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service have advanced five efforts that would dramatically alter protections for some 60 million acres of federally managed land in Alaska. If fully enacted, the policies and decisions outlined in those propos...

More COVID-19 cases in Kivalina, as some area schools reopen January 21st |     Schools across Northern Alaska returned from winter break this week, but not all students will be returning to the classroom. As some communities see COVID-19 cases continue to spike, schools move into red, "high-risk" zones, requiring distance education to curb community spread. Between Jan. 7 and Jan. 14, 14 residents of Kivalina tested positive for COVID-19, with one case from a resident of Noatak, one c...

2020 tests limits of Arctic adaptation December 31st, 2020 | 1. Arctic struggles with pandemic and its impacts to education, health Across the Arctic, as well as the state, nation and globe, the dominant story of 2020 was the COVID-19 pandemic. For rural Alaska, however, the pandemic brought back memories of the Spanish flu, which decimated many in Alaskas Native villages, in some cases leaving only a handful of survivors. While the state braced for impact shortly after spring break, closi...

Groups Rush to Court to Stop ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project Winter Road Construction and Gravel Mining ANCHORAGE (AK)— Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic and five allied groups filed a motion in U.S. District Court last week requesting a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to stop ConocoPhillips from starting winter road construction and gravel mining for its Willow project. “We have experienced rising health issues, and the dismantling of traditional practices and...

Ballot Measure 2 Offers a Better Path for Rural Alaska Ballot Measure 2 Offers a Better Path for Rural Alaska rd, we urge rural Alaskans to vote YES on Ballot Measure 2. Our current election system of closed primaries and uncompetitive general elections does a disservice to rural Alaskans. Ballot Measure 2 offers a better path forward. First, we’ve seen increased polarization and gridlock in Juneau in recent years, driven in part by the ideological purity tests placed on legislators by small...

for our health, our wild places, and our climate. You saved Clean Water Act protections for rivers, lakes, and oceans in the “Clean Water Case of the Century” at the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorneys in Earthjustices Mid-Pacific Office represented the Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club-Maui Group, Surfrider Foundation, and West Maui Preservation Association. You stood with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as they were vindicated in the court of law, after years of persever...

FasterSkierDecember 20, 2020 What a year. In the spirit of optimism, we want to highlight a few non-profits worthy of your consideration when thinking of buying gifts this holiday season. We know the wonder cross-country skiing provides. Gliding through the woods, no noise, totally connected. Silent sports fuel us. Why not support organizations lifting kids up and sharing the wealth that is skiing.    Spirit North: Canada based and supporting Indigenous youth. Founded by Beckie Scott, a form...