Alaska
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The case for conservation leasing
Federal rules make it illegal for environmentalists to lease oil- and gas-rich lands in order to protect them. It’s time for that to change.
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America’s ‘climate forest’ is under attack. Biden can protect it.
Alaska’s Tongass forest was protected for nearly 20 years, then Trump reopened it for business. Now, nine Alaskan tribes and several climate orgs are calling on Biden to restore the Roadless Rule.
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As warming waters make shellfish toxic, a way of life becomes deadly for Native Alaskans
As warming waters make shellfish toxic, a way of life becomes deadly for Native Alaskans.
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Want to know what climate change feels like? Ask an Alaskan.
Vanished sea ice. Skies choked with wildfire smoke. Animals appearing where they shouldn’t. Climate change is visible everywhere in Alaska.
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Arctic wildfires are releasing as much carbon as Belgium did last year
Here’s why the epic burn, ranging from Alaska to Siberia, matters.
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Why Alaska might seriously consider a carbon tax
A price on carbon could tackle two huge problems at once: climate change and a lack of revenue.
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The Bering Sea’s ice has never melted this early before
Ice disappears every summer but never so early, the latest sign of what scientists have been calling the New Arctic.
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It’s a steamy 80 degrees in New England. In February. That’s bad.
The return of “Februne.”
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Republicans are using some very shaky math to justify drilling in the Arctic refuge
The Congressional Budget Office said drilling would raise $1.1 billion for the government over the next decade, but it's going to be less than a fifth of that.