The federal government announced it will hold its annual oil and gas lease sale for land in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, or NPR-A, on Dec. 14.
Arctic
Edward Itta remembered for balancing two worlds
Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta died Sunday in Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow. Family members said the cause was cancer. He was 71.
Giant snowballs wash up on Siberian beach
The masses of balls that appeared along 11 miles of coast in western Siberia were snowy and icy. Some of them were small, and some were quite large.
Q&A: Polar architect designs for extreme environments and climate change
Hugh Broughton and his UK-based team of architects just finished the space-age Halley VI for the British Antarctic Survey.
Running for U.S. House seat, Lindbeck says diversifying Alaska’s economy a key issue
Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Steve Lindbeck was scheduled to be in Wrangell on Saturday, but fog prevented him from making one of his final Southeast campaign stops.
As Climate Changes, Meteorologists Relying Less on ‘Using the Past to Inform the Future’
National Weather Service Meteorologist, Rick Thoman, believes the arctic is in for a more normal winter this year, but he says climate change has made past weather events less useful for predicting arctic weather.