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UAF officials roll out gangplank for public to view new research vessel devoted to polar oceanography.

While Sen. Lisa Murkowski barely mentioned climate change in her annual speech to the Alaska Legislature, a small crowd rallied outside to bring attention to the issue.

Shaker with preliminary magnitude of 4.4 was centered about 78 miles southwest of Haines.

When you see it up close, you really get a much better feel for the passion, the fear, the importance to culture and lifestyle that’s all at risk here,” Jewell said.

Like flecks of pepper on chowder, all of the spectacled eiders on the planet are now gathered amid sea ice and steaming open leads in the Bering Sea.

Even though Alaska figures in discussion of climate change nationally, it’s rarely a major topic of conversation in Juneau.