Photo Credit: National Geographic
Despite opposition from Governor Sarah Palin, last week the Bush Administration added Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales to the endangered species list. The population has decreased from around 1,300 in the 70s to the 375 or so present today. More below the fold....
photo: USGS
Just a quick update to a post done back in July on the geothermal exploration rights on several Alaskan volcanoes being put on the auction block. Mount Spurr, a snowcapped 11,070 foot tall volcano about 75 miles west of Anchorage was the first one up and Ormat Technologies is the lucky winner.
ABC will be running an interview with Sarah Palin this evening on no less than three of its programs (World News, 20/20 and Nightline) and as Earth2Tech puts it, has been milking them for all they’re worth. In the run-up to that interview, last night on Nightline Charlie Gibson spoke with ...
Palin with Salmon via Alaska Seafood
We've been covering the struggle in Alaska's Bristol Bay between salmon fishers and mining interests for a while. The story took an interesting turn when Alaska Governor, and Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin offered her personal thoughts on the proposed Clean Water Initiative (Ballot Measure 4) that would restrict pollutants that new mines would be able to release into the state's waterways.
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The embattled polar bear is on thinner ice than it's ever been. Five industry groups, including the American Petroleum Institute, filed suit Thursday against Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall in an attempt to reverse listing the polar bear as a threatened species.
A super ripe Biriba fruit, an orgasmic Amazonian treat!
Stephen Brooks is the co-founder of Kopali Organics and a correspondent for Planet Green’s G Word .
Now why do some foods become popular and others just don't ever make it to market. Some of the worlds greatest foods are barely eaten outside of their area of origin. How did a fruit like the kiwi go from being nearly unknown outside the Yangtze Valley in China to in almost every fruit salad around the world? Just who makes those decisions?...
Really, we do try to be non-partisan; we are just pro-environment and anti-jerk. But Michele Bachmann's hits just keep on coming, she is to quotes of the day what Michael Phelps is to Gold Medals. Here she describes her recent flight over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and how she found it to be just the most "perfect place on the planet to drill."
Too Much is Never Enough of Michelle Bachmann on TreeHugger
When you think of the lengths some folks have gone to in the name of environmental education there’s certainly few who have gone further than Timothy Treadwell. The recovering alcoholic and drug addict who devoted the last 13 summers of his life to living among the grizzlies in Alaska's Katmai National Park while attempting to understand them better and credited his newly found passion for wildlife adventures for his recovery.
The Bering Sea isn’t exactly the easiest spot on the planet to fish, regardless of the technology used. This photo, by Nick Myers, shows just what sort of waves can occur in the Bering.
LED Streetlights in Anchorage, Alaska
We told you that LED streetlights were coming. The latest town to get them is Anchorage, Alaska. The municipality, along with Cree, Inc, a maker of LED lights, are planning to change 16,000 municipal roadway lights with high-efficiency LED fixtures (about 1/4 of total streetlights).
Bigger Benefits Up North
Because Anchorage has 85 days a year with less than 8 hours of daylight, any benefit over the tradition lighting architecture are compounded. Read on for technical benefits of LED streetlights....
credit: Getty Images/NASA
Wildfires in Alaska and Canada Had Net Cooling Effect
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