Arctic

The cost of a single icebreaker would exceed the Coast Guard’s entire yearly allotment for ship-building.

In Washington, both sides of any Arctic drilling dispute want to show they have locals on their side.

Scientists are scrambling to calibrate a month of missing data.

The biggest local internet service provider in northern Alaska expects high demand for the broadband connections. It’ll be offering the service early next year.

The Department of Energy awarded federal funding to install panels in Kotzebue, Buckland and Deering, but decreasing the region’s dependency on diesel is easier said than done.

You’ve probably never heard a beluga whistle or a narwhal click. Not many people have. But Michael Mahoney’s students are experts on the bioacoustics of these mammals, after spending hours logging recordings of their sounds from the Chukchi Sea and Northwest Passage.