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Harnessing People Power to Protect Alaska’s Last Remaining Wilderness
Oil and gas development inside the arctic refuge would make life more challenging for the Southern Beaufort Sea polar bear, a species already at risk from climate change and melting sea ice.
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A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Jan 27, 2021
January has seen major progress toward protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, thanks to the organizing power of three distinct communities Indigenous activists, TikTok creators, and the makers of an unfinished documentary film that came together toward a common goal.
Two women, wearing protective masks due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, cast their ballots Tuesday at a polling station at Windham (N.H.) High School. Regardless of the presidential election outcome, a vexing issue remains to be decided: Will the U.S. be able to tame a pandemic that is surging as holidays, winter and other challenges approach? Public health experts fear the answer is no.
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When thick, the surface layer of the ocean acts as a buffer to extreme marine heating but a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder shows this mixed layer is becoming shallower each year. The thinner it becomes, the easier it is to warm. The new work could explain recent extreme marine heatwaves, and point at a future of more frequent and destructive ocean warming events as global temperatures continue to climb. Marine heatwaves will be more intense and happen more often in the future, said Dillon Amaya, a CIRES Visiting Fellow and lead author on the study out this week in the
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Cities are not all the same, or at least their evolution isn t, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.
These findings, out this week in
Nature Communications Earth and Environment and
Earth System Science Data, buck the historical view that most cities in the United States developed in similar ways. Using a century s worth of urban spatial data, the researchers found a long history of urban size (how big a place is) decoupling from urban form (the shape and structure of a city), leading to cities not all evolving the same or even close.
The researchers hope that by providing this look at the past with this unique data set, they ll be able to glimpse the future, including the impact of population growth on cities or how cities might develop in response to environmental factors like sea level rise or wildfire risk.
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Schelly Olson, the assistant chief for Grand Fire, stands among all that remains of her Grand Lake home on Nov. 13, 2020 after it burned down in the East Troublesome fire last year. Nov. 13, 2020.
As Schelly Olson walked around the charred rubble of what was her Grand Lake home, she pointed to a pile of things that survived the second-largest wildfire in state history.
“You can see my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law piled all of my silver from my grandmother,” Olson said. “We just kind of did some digging, and all the silver was right around here. This is the dining room area.”