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Alaskas High Court first supreme court in the nation to hear climate change case
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
APM: Alaskas high court became the first state supreme court in the country yesterday to hear an appeal in one of more than a dozen climate change lawsuits. The lawsuits pit young people against their states. The plaintiffs claim the state has an obligation to protect the atmosphere from excessive carbon emissions. Nelson Kanuk is a freshman at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the main plaintiff inAlaskas case. His familys home in the 600-person village of Kipnuk became uninhabitable...
Fires, smoke, floods are drawbacks of Alaska's hot summer
2013-08-17 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Alaska residents have been enjoying an unusually warm, sunny summer, but the pleasant weather has come at a cost: choking smoke from an extended wildfire season, flooding rivers due to fast-melting snow and glacial ice, and fish covered in algae. Wildfires have burned 1.25 million acres across Alaska this summer, according to the state's fire-management center, the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Seventy fires were active on Friday, including a 57,870-acre (23,400-hectare) blaze near Delta...
Relocation of Alaska's sinking Newtok village halted
2013-08-05 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An Alaskan village's quest to move to higher ground and avoid being drowned by climate change has sputtered to a halt, The Guardian has learned. Newtok, on the Bering Sea coast, is sinking and the highest point in the village the school which sits perched atop 20ft pilings - could be underwater by 2017. But the village's relocation effort broke down this summer because of an internal political conflict and a freeze on government funds. The Guardian wrote about the strains placed on Newtok by...
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Alaskas heat wave breaking records, killing salmon
2013-08-01 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Something smells fishy about a record-breaking heat wave in Alaska. It might be the piles of dead salmon. The Land of the Midnight Sun has been sweating, relatively speaking, through a hot and sun-soaked summer. From the AP: Anchorage has set a record for the most consecutive days over 70 degrees during this unusually warm summer, while Fairbanks is closing in on its own seasonal heat record. The National Weather Service said Alaskas largest city topped out at 70 degrees at 4 p.m. Tuesday,...
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VIDEO: Alaska's billion dollar business
2013-07-30 09:59:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Wild salmon is big business in Alaska with 14,000 livelihoods depending on the industry in the Bristol Bay area alone.
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