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Arctic Refuge drilling to be attached to defense appropriations bill	David Roberts	15 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Oh crap. From Congressional Quarterly: Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens said Thursday that House and Senate appropriators have agreed to attach drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to the Defense bill in conference, though it is unclear if he can muster the 60 votes needed to end a filbuster on the legislation that the move would provoke. 'We've agreed to put ANWR on it so we'll just have to wait and s ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, dumbassery, legislation, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, US Senate (all these topics)

The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears		15 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears OK, we're trying to keep a positive outlook here, but ... drowning polar bears? Seriously? And just when therapy was starting to work. In September 2004 (the year the polar ice cap receded a record 160 miles from Alaska's north coast), federal researchers doing routine aerial surveys counted 10 bears swimming in the open ocean as far as 60 miles off Al ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds		02 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds The first comprehensive study of "bycatch" -- unwanted fish caught and discarded by commercial fishing operations -- has confirmed the worst fears of conservationists: Over a fifth of all fish caught by U.S. commercial fishers, around 1.1 million tons, are tossed out every year. Commis ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, news (all these topics)

Drilling in ANWR will hurt the environment! No it won't! Yes it ... yawn	Corey McKrill	30 Nov 2005	Gristmill
A while back I filled out the little form for NRDC's letter-writing campaign to save the Arctic Refuge. It sends a message to your Congressman, urging them oppose oil and gas development in the region. It's probably the tenth one of those things I've submitted regarding the refuge. (It's so easy; just type in your email and click 'send.' No thought involved.) I often question the usefulness of online campaigns and the implications of such mindless 'citizen participatio ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Senate votes to keep Arctic Refuge drilling in budget bill	Grist	03 Nov 2005	Gristmill
The campaign to keep oil drills out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has just been dealt what could be a fatal blow. Yesterday, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced an amendment to drop refuge-drilling language from a filibuster-proof federal budget bill; today, the Senate voted down that amendment, 48 to 51. 'This is too important a question to slide into the budget bill,' Cantwell said yesterday. 'We are setting a very, very dangerous precedent.' But Senate Majorit ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Screen Acres How I spent my summer vacation ... at the movies	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
I'd love to tell you about my summer close to nature -- how I whiled away the days on a hidden Maine-coast isle, picking blueberries in the early morning and watching seals cavort in the sea. But the truth is, I spent quite a few of my July and August afternoons in a different sort of island haven: the dark, air-conditioned movie theaters of Manhattan. There's something dissolute about going to a movie o ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres March of the Penguins Trailer (Windows Media Player)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Back to review.
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres March of the Penguins Trailer (QuickTime)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
The QuickTime Player is required. Get it now. Back to intro review.
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres Grizzly Man Trailer (Windows Media Player)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Back to review.
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres March of the Penguins Trailer (RealPlayer)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
The RealPlayer is required. Get it now. (There is a completely free version. Make sure to click on the hard-to-find "FREE RealPlayer" link.) Back to review.
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

I Fjord Your Pain McCain, Clinton, other senators take global-warming tour in Alaska		18 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
I Fjord Your Pain McCain, Clinton, other senators take global-warming tour in Alaska Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and two other Lower-48 colleagues are touring Alaska this week to see for themselves the destructive impacts of climate change. They've flown over Yukon forests devastated by spruce bark beetles -- believed to be thriving thanks to unusually high temperatures -- and e ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, Hillary Clinton, news, politics (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		11 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 11 Aug 2005 KAKTOVIK, Alaska, and SEATTLE, Wash. "For us, this is a human-rights stand," says Luci Beach, executive d ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

Hairy Otters Are Now Half-Gone (Wince) Alaskan sea otters being added to endangered species list		10 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Hairy Otters Are Now Half-Gone (Wince) Alaskan sea otters being added to endangered species list Suffering population declines that are baffling scientists, the sea otters of southwest Alaska are being designated a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, which entitles the furry marine mammals to stronger federal protections. Government biologists plan to investigate why their numbers have plummeted from tens of thou ...
Topics: Alaska, marine life, news (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		10 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 10 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS, Alaska For the two days following Roger Kaye's talk, we remain in Fairbanks meeting with scientists, ac ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		09 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 09 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS, Alaska We arrive back in Fairbanks early in the evening on Aug. 8. Everyone takes showers and we all eat ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		08 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 08 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS and AICHILIK RIVER, Alaska The Alaskan part of the trip begins at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, when we arrive at t ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		29 Jul 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 29 Jul 2005 SEATTLE, Wash. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of one of the most contentious environmental and ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

A Beautiful Mine? A local ponders the implications of the EPA's approval of a large gold mine in Alaska	Corey McKrill	01 Jul 2005	Gristmill
On Wednesday, the EPA granted Coeur Alaska the final wastewater discharge pollution permit it needed to begin building its Kensington gold mine near Alaska's capital city, Juneau. For background, see: Planet Ark Juneau Empire (more complete, but free registration required) An unfortunate rule change in 2002 that redefined Kensington's particular type of mine-tailings as 'fill' allowed the permit to move forward. Coeur Alaska plans to dump its tailings into a ne ...
Topics: Alaska, mining (all these topics)

Don't Be Such a Prudhoe American oil supplies well past peak		10 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Be Such a Prudhoe American oil supplies well past peak America's domestic oil supplies are tapping out. At Alaska's massive Prudhoe Bay field, output has dropped nearly 75 percent since 1987 highs. With mega-developing nations India and China gobbling up the world's spare oil supply and U.S. demand still rising, engineers are now going after poorer grades of oil once considered uneconomical. But that gunky ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, United States (all these topics)

What's the Time? It's Time to Get Iliamna Proposed Alaskan mine may threaten salmon wonderland		26 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
What's the Time? It's Time to Get Iliamna Proposed Alaskan mine may threaten salmon wonderland Near the shores of vast Lake Iliamna in southern Alaska, locals are worried that a huge proposed open-pit mine at the region's headwaters could imperil legendary salmon runs. The story is familiar enough: an economically depressed, mineral-rich area gets courted by slick mining-company officials promising jobs ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, lakes, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Everything Coal Is New Again Congress seeks tax money to make defunct 'clean coal' plant dirty again		25 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Everything Coal Is New Again Congress seeks tax money to make defunct "clean coal" plant dirty again For aficionados of government pork, the energy bill that recently passed the House is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest gem uncovered is a provision that would offer $125 million in loan guarantees to a "clean coal" power plant in Alaska. Now, this pork isn't going to build the plant -- tha ...
Topics: Alaska, coal, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change		25 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it's all melting. The Alaskan village of Shi ...
Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics)

No Refuge Is an Island Arctic Refuge drilling debate misses the big picture	Robert L. Fischman	12 Apr 2005	Soapbox
Sun-drenched Pelican Island in Florida is about as far from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as you can get in the United States. At first blush, the 5,000-acre warm marsh would seem to have little connection to the 19 million-acre stretch of mountains and tundra. But they are inextricably linked. A buff-breasted sandpiper. � Subhankar Banerjee, from his book Arctic National Wildlife ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, mining and drilling, wetlands, wilderness (all these topics)

Hunting Irony Alaskan wolves, bears hunted for hunting what the hunters want to hunt		05 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Hunting Irony Alaskan wolves, bears hunted for hunting what the hunters want to hunt These are not the best of times for Alaska's wolves and bears. A well-studied family of wolves in Denali National Park recently lost two senior females when they wandered outside park borders and were killed by trappers; a similar fate may befall the injured alpha male. Egged on by conservation groups, a trio of Democratic senators -- Barbara Boxer ...
Topics: Alaska, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Crude Awakening An open letter to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska	Terry Tempest Williams	18 Mar 2005	Soapbox
Dear Sen. Stevens, This week you got your wish: a 51 to 49 vote against the Cantwell amendment and in favor of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. The crude minds have spoken. Finally. You told your colleagues and anyone else who would listen that you have been clinically depressed for 24 years -- the same 24 y ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, oil, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

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