Work began early this year on protecting the highway that serves Alaska’s North Slope oilfields from a repeat of last year’s flooding.
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U.S. and Russia sign joint wildlife management agreement
Cooperation across the Bering Strait was strengthened this week when the United States and Russia signed a joint wildlife agreement.
At Arctic summit, climate change is inevitable and irreversible
“It’s not a myth like some people might claim. It’s real. It really affects us up here, big time,” said Steve Ginnis of the Fairbanks Native Association.
Lawmakers eye earnings of rural energy endowment to fund state budget
Some lawmakers are questioning whether the fund, now worth $900 million, should be committed to benefit only about one in nine Alaskans.
Scientists, policymakers converge in Fairbanks for Arctic Science Summit Week
“Good public policy, including good foreign policy, … must be based on facts on the ground, which is to say it must be based in reality,” said Julia Gourley, the United States’ senior Arctic official on the Arctic Council.
BLM director visits North Slope to cap wells, transfer lands
The director of the Bureau of Land Management is visiting the North Slope this week. Over the next two days, Director Neil Kornze will meet with Native corporations, local government officials, and community leaders in the region.