Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties wants to find out “whether there are systemic problems” with the way FEMA works with Indigenous communities in Alaska.
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The Donlin Mine project in Southwest Alaska is facing legal challenges over water impacts
The project, located about 145 miles northeast of Bethel, would be one of the biggest open-pit gold mines in the world.
After last year’s harsh winter, a herd of wood bison introduced to Alaska is smaller than it’s ever been
The latest population survey shows the herd dropped from about 150 to 72 animals over the last year.
Can this robot print a whole house? Nome is going to find out
Researchers estimated that the shell of a concrete home would cost about one-fourth what a traditional one would.
Local stories mean Yukon River ‘treasure trove’ is more than just a lot of dinosaur footprints
It has been more than a decade since researchers first announced that they’d found dinosaur footprints along the middle section of the Yukon River. And when that team did make their discovery public, they also said that it was unlikely that people who live along the river even knew dinosaur footprints littered the riverbanks near them. But…
Scientists find a ‘dinosaur bonanza’ during Yukon River trip
In a single week, they’ve turned up at least two dozen footprints left by at least five different species