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The pandemic recession has reduced US energy demand, roiling budgets in states that are major fossil fuel producers. But politics and culture can impede efforts to look beyond oil, gas and coal.
The Trump administration is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing – a step that's as much about politics as it is about energy.
As climate change warms northern rivers and changes precipitation patterns, some types of cold-loving fish are failing.
The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the planet as a whole, with serious consequences. Scientists have been warning about this for decades.
The historical record is full of surprises – and it could encourage conservationists to think more creatively.
Alaska has been mostly spared from the virus, but the outbreak's impact on its economy could still be catastrophic because of its reliance on seasonal tourism.
Dams built to hold enormous quantities of toxic mining waste have a long history of spills. Decisions in the Pacific Northwest threaten three free-flowing rivers there.
The gap between rich and poor is at record levels in the U.S., yet it varies widely among the states. A political scientist explains why.
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn't be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.
A researcher based in Fairbanks, Alaska, links 2019's record-breaking wildfires in far northern regions of the world to climate change, and describes what it's like as zones near her city burn.
Nationwide, state government money has become a smaller and smaller fraction of public higher education budgets.
How did Alaska, one of the richest states in the Union, end up with budget cuts that lawmakers on both sides say could wreck the state's future? One answer's found in three letters: PFD.
A decade-long project to excavate a sod house from half a millennium ago has yielded nearly 100,000 artefacts.
Can presidents undo decisions by their predecessors to protect federal lands from development? A recent court ruling on offshore drilling says no, and could also affect contested lands in Utah.
Much of our scientific knowledge comes from just two regions in Alaska and Sweden.
For everyone from traditional hunters to the military, the National Park Service to the oil industry, climate change is the new reality in Alaska. Government, residents and businesses are all trying to adapt.
Many Native languages are dying, and their loss has deep and profound implications for our world.
Climate change is transforming the Arctic, with impacts on the rest of the planet. A geographer explains why he once doubted that human actions were causing such shifts, and what changed his mind.
Alaska and oil proponents are cheering a move to open up an ecologically sensitive part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling -- a position environment supporters can't abide.
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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SNAP Coordinator, Research Faculty, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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PhD candidate, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
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Adjunct Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director, Bioethics & Health Law Center, Mississippi College
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Professor of Economics, Boston University
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Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Professor of Practice in Meteorology, Professor of International Affairs & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State
