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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.
Climate change is making berries ripen early in Kodiak, Alaska, luring bears away from eating salmon. This shift may not hurt the bears, but could have far-reaching impacts on surrounding forests.
Hawaii was the last state to join the Union. It didn’t happen without a lot of political dealmaking.
Sea otters had been absent from this Alaskan national park for at least 250 years. By marrying math and statistics, scientists map this animal’s successful comeback.
Oil production used to fall when prices were low. But a new drilling boom in Alaska, driven by technical advances and global partnerships, spotlights America’s rise as a world oil power.
The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the U.S. 150 years ago is actually two tales and two intertwining histories.
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Research assistant professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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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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Professor of Economics, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director, Bioethics & Health Law Center, Mississippi College
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Professor of Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway University of London
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Alberta
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Practice in Meteorology, Professor of International Affairs & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Museum Studies, Indiana University
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Research Geologist, US Geological Survey
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Senior Research Associate, The University of Melbourne
