Finally! @AK_OK did the story the rest of us have been thinking about. Here is a terrific explanation of the beating Alaska's economy just took, will continue to take and the choices lawmakers are facing when trying to figure out how to keep the lights on. https://t.co/ozTqAPv7yy
— Rashah McChesney (@RashahMcChesney) March 23, 2020
https://t.co/nIwaJtXPxf Hard to overstate how devastating this is for the Alaska economy. #COVIDー19
— Must Read Alaska (@MustReadAlaska) March 9, 2020
Need more info on how social distancing works and why it is CRITICAL to #stopthespread of coronavirus? Here's an informative article from Southcentral Foundation: https://t.co/uxkRm4jt2B
— United Tribes of BB (@UnitedTribes_BB) March 30, 2020
Video update of our Vine Road pipeline replacement project: pic.twitter.com/IGsIgZQ3dr
— ENSTAR Natural Gas (@ENSTARNatGas) September 14, 2019
A large block of thawing permafrost topples into the ocean on the Arctic coast of Alaska at the edge of the Beaufort Sea. The decline in landfast sea ice is exposing coasts to high energy wave action during winter storms. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey https://t.co/G7kIxxZody pic.twitter.com/QiLXyPIzSZ
— The Ice Age ❄️ (@Jamie_Woodward_) February 25, 2020
Unusually large numbers of sea otters carcasses were turning up in Katmai, in Alaska.
Using automated cameras, scientists have identified the culprits: Brown bears were eating them — a previously undocumented behavior.
My story for @hakaimagazinehttps://t.co/BAflQZ1dxd pic.twitter.com/G99t1OZuKR
— Nat Herz (@Nat_Herz) February 8, 2020
Rising sea levels will threaten 3 times more people in the next 30 years than previously thought, according to the latest scientific estimates.
Among the hundreds of millions of people worldwide facing the threat are the 400 residents of Newtok, Alaska.https://t.co/Xmjz0SvogD
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) November 30, 2019
NORAD detected 2 Russian spy planes flying off the coast of Alaska: Business Insiderhttps://t.co/gISpORjvqc pic.twitter.com/7s6s9Byu0b
— UNIAN (English) (@unian_en) August 5, 2019
BP sells Alaska business to Hilcorp for $5.6 billion. Learn more – https://t.co/4bSM9UTrHe#BP #Hilcorp #Alaska #northslope #prudhoebay #oil #oilandgasnews pic.twitter.com/OqrpYozWUh
— World Oil Online (@WorldOil) August 27, 2019
Today begins a new chapter for Prudhoe Bay as we confirm the sale of our Alaska business to @HilcorpEnergyCo. Thank you Alaska. #PrudhoeProud https://t.co/1uuzemt2uH pic.twitter.com/tW89k4mni7
— BP_Alaska (@BP_Alaska) August 27, 2019
Chris Amstutz, vice president of oil and gas industry programs, talks about removing profitability barriers with automation technology in the June edition of Alaska Business. Story: https://t.co/eiL51eyWXk. @AKBusinessMonth @EMR_Automation
— Paradigm (@ParadigmLtd) June 6, 2019
A state-of-the-art tool used by the oil industry in Alaska to avoid harming or disturbing polar bears may not be all that effective, a study found https://t.co/V5dCuxOddo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 28, 2020
Public documents reveal that a timber industry group is being paid — in taxpayer dollars originating with the U.S. Forest Service — to select which trees it wants to cut in a massive timber sale on Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. https://t.co/OfbIFEkMaN
— Earthjustice (@Earthjustice) February 9, 2020
A new Alaska oil tax initiative is aimed at raising taxes on legacy fields. According to oil industry officials, this initiative has the potential to kill future investments. https://t.co/8efJTxNjzl
— Power The Future (@powerthefuture) December 11, 2019
Cross the treeless, frozen tundra of southwest Alaska, over ice-covered lakes and ponds near the Bering Sea, and you'll find the first community in the U.S. counted for the 2020 census. https://t.co/aXD1A6jHFj pic.twitter.com/MDJYgRFe60
— NPR (@NPR) February 20, 2020
Tell me this girl isn't a fan of fishing 😂 Good friend Kristin Dunn with @Kodiakcustom Fishing Tackle with side kick famous Davis on camera catching Alaska wild salmon. FULL TV episodes available on Amazon Prime Video & YouTube https://t.co/ChL0EqLpqv #Alaska #Salmon #Fishing pic.twitter.com/cOHd0f4jD9
— Alaska Outdoors TV (@AKODTV) March 2, 2020
Mining Road Moves Closer to Opening Biggest Block of Wild Alaska https://t.co/e4yyDhKLfG
— Earthworks (@Earthworks) March 30, 2020
Our supporters sent 21,000 comments to the Trump administration opposing plans to build this 211-mile long industrial road through Gates of the Arctic National Preserve and adjacent to Gates of the Arctic Wilderness. Stay tuned…This fight is NOT over!https://t.co/FTx8qjNz5u
— Wilderness Watch (@WildernessWatch) March 29, 2020
$35M set aside for Alaska mining access road amid pandemic https://t.co/fQR7B7JF5Q
— Star World (@Star_Foreign) March 28, 2020
BLM paved the way for a road across an untouched part of Alaska, connecting potential new mines to the outside world, publishing a final environmental impact statement outlining no environmental impacts significant enough to stop the proposed Ambler Road.https://t.co/6foKonSsuY
— E&E News (@EENewsUpdates) March 27, 2020
A mining company secretly gave talking points, ghost written letters and lobbyist advice to the governor of Alaska to lobby the Trump administration to move forward with a mining project despite warnings from the EPA. https://t.co/r9FlvZpFXb
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 30, 2019
Alaska’s Governor is working against his own people’s best interests. A mining company worked in cahoots with Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) to get Trump to reverse an Obama-era restriction on a mine that will decimate the wild salmon population in Alaska.😡😡😡👇https://t.co/ocXClypKTa
— Ladywolf (@NorskLadyWolf) December 22, 2019
Tom Stienstra | As in Alaska, salmon draw in bears on Tahoe creeks. The bears will stay as long as there are fish in the creek to eat, and this past week, the run was still going strong. https://t.co/SCB6prYSjx pic.twitter.com/GENyIJE21Z
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) October 20, 2019
ASX Announcement: Northern Cobalt Limited ( $N27)
"Binding agreement to earn up to 80% of the Goodpaster Project, adjacent to Northern Star’s Pogo Gold Mine, Alaska. "#Mining #MiningNews @NorthernCobalthttps://t.co/cZC8vhL7Mn pic.twitter.com/pMAiN9lpFH
— Mining.com.au (@miningcomau) October 17, 2019
Trump officials broke the law when they gave a green light to a proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, mining opponents said in a lawsuit filed today. https://t.co/ytxr1w9y3k
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 9, 2019
National Parks Conservation Association warns Alaska's mining "road to ruin" could change forever one of the last great wild landscapes on the planet https://t.co/287lT5kBha
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 14, 2019
The Editorial Board shines light on three travesties: Trump's push to open the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging and his efforts to revive potentially destructive mining projects in Alaska and Minnesota https://t.co/skks9x4Or5
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) September 1, 2019
"Trump has told Agriculture Sec Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions.
"The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it to logging, energy & mining projects:https://t.co/RfDqDieXtd
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 27, 2019
"Scientists have now confirmed that at least one of Katmai’s brown bears is preying on live sea otters—a previously undocumented behavior that speaks to broader ecological changes driven by the rebound of Alaska’s sea otter population." https://t.co/hsuGsuOWKk
— Bear Trust International (@BearTrust) February 7, 2020
For guests currently booked on upcoming cruises, Holland America Line is temporarily changing its cancellation policy and allowing guests to cancel their #cruise or Alaska Land+Sea Journey departing through May 31, 2020. For full details –> https://t.co/IKRHvWhYic pic.twitter.com/MkqYlgPSKl
— Holland America Line (@HALcruises) March 6, 2020
US #Coast Guard #helicopter team from Air Station Kodiak Alaska medevaced a 43-year old crewman of the American fish factory vessel #BOUNTIFUL 28 Jan in the Bering Sea. He was taken to Saint Paul island for further transfer to Anchorage for medical attention pic.twitter.com/CI21b9epNX
— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) January 29, 2020
#Anchorage (Alaska) has just experienced its first month of 'below average' temperatures in 22 months AND its 8th coldest January on record!
Cold air penned in across the Arctic has also meant Arctic sea ice extent is greater than a year ago BUT still below the 1981-2010 median pic.twitter.com/jAxcpMkSRW
— Matt Taylor (@MetMattTaylor) February 2, 2020
Much below normal temperatures for the last two months has enabled Bering Sea ice to just barely exceed 100% of normal. On this date in 2018, there was unprecedented open water in the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea. @AlaskaWx @IARC_Alaska https://t.co/NvUvruO70D pic.twitter.com/DVpzEs2Ozt
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) February 21, 2020
A storm will spread snow from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast into Tuesday. Locally heavy rain will be possible in the Deep South. In Alaska, a storm will rapidly strengthen over the Bering Sea Monday where it will bring strong winds and heavy snow through midweek. pic.twitter.com/afkdifUIPK
— National Weather Service (@NWS) February 17, 2020
Well above average temperatures across all of Siberia last month.
Colder anomalies were observed in areas around the Barents Sea, Greenland, and Alaska. [Data from JRA-55 reanalysis] pic.twitter.com/qiOdnNRAeK
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 4, 2020
More fun with sea ice: #GOES17/#GOESwest True Color RGB images showing the tidal ebb and flow of ice within Cook Inlet, Alaska: https://t.co/rSSrNMfJ59 #AKwx pic.twitter.com/SJvcBvAeLf
— Scott Bachmeier (@CIMSS_Satellite) March 16, 2020
This jet stream pattern with the huge excursion over Alaska is freakish and likely caused by Arctic sea ice depletion causing stagnant patterns.
This is prime example of the "climate juiced" atmosphere patterns expected to become more frequent due to climate heating. pic.twitter.com/66j6BcTzDF
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) October 26, 2019
IT IS 27°C (49°F) ABOVE NORMAL IN THE ARCTIC'S CHUKCHI SEA AND NORTHERN ALASKA!
This is 𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 sea ice in the middle of winter! pic.twitter.com/YmzxfVhAMJ
— Kevin Pluck Plain Soap Destroys Viruses (@kevpluck) December 11, 2019
The calendar says November, but sea ice in the Arctic north of Alaska is still hundreds of miles from shore.
This is not normal.
We are in a climate emergency. https://t.co/6DLykwfedq pic.twitter.com/LxWIA6MaJg
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 5, 2019
DYK there are over 2,000 brown bears @KatmaiNPS in hibernation right now? They will soon emerge from their dens in search of salmon & other food sources. 🐻🐟 #WildlifeWednesday
Watch a highlight reel of their adventures at Brooks Falls: https://t.co/HM22AUaZae
— SCA (@the_sca) March 25, 2020
"For them, and for many people in Alaskan coastal communities, the commercial #fishingindustry & #ocean are less a livelihood and more a lifeline, passion, and calling."
Meet the salmon sisters, of the MSC certified Alaska salmon fishery: https://t.co/PJT0omcMUP#OceanLives
— Marine Stewardship Council (@MSCecolabel) January 21, 2020
Working title for paper in progress "The Sea is not Level".
Take a look at Juneau, Alaska – sea is falling by 13.25mm/yr (52'/century) due to post-glacial rebound 10,000 yrs after the glaciers were mostly melted! Imagine how much the land had been depressed by the weight of ice. pic.twitter.com/eeiSkcz7vU— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) November 30, 2019
5 native, business & environmental organizations sued the EPA over a proposed controversial Alaska gold and copper mine that the Trump administration has backed after it reversed an Obama-era decision that stopped the project due to environmental concerns https://t.co/UilJ7ywTUm
— CNN (@CNN) October 8, 2019
"For the first time in recorded history, Alaska’s sea ice has melted completely away. That means there was no sea ice whatsoever within 150 miles of its shores, according to the National Weather Service": https://t.co/jO67u0cm3d
— robintransition (@robintransition) September 23, 2019
Anchorage hit 90°F. Seals and other animals are unexpectedly dying. And the sea ice is long gone from the coastline. Welcome to summer in Alaska in the Anthropocene.https://t.co/5mNtZM2bjV
— InsideClimate News (@insideclimate) August 11, 2019
Alaska's sea ice has plummeted to its lowest August levels ever https://t.co/j5cW1iIkM0
— TIME (@TIME) August 8, 2019
Alaska's Sea Ice Has All Melted https://t.co/XH7ohGy9NS
— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) August 7, 2019
Alaska is the most rapidly changing state in the US and has no sea ice within 150 miles of its shores. After a summer with well above-average temperatures, warmer seas, and a historic July heat wave, sea ice has vanished in Alaskan waters. https://t.co/v2wC1RBje8
— katmai (@ukudigada) August 6, 2019
Alaska's record-hot summer:
* July to be warmest month on record, by a lot
* No below freezing temp since June 28, longest streak
* Anchorage's humidity like NYC & DC at times
* 'Collapsing' sea ice is record lowhttps://t.co/kfKvRTeeF9— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) July 30, 2019
Melting Alaska sea ice has residents, scientists worried https://t.co/xzcD22dGTA pic.twitter.com/u6ZNB2Xo3e
— New York Post (@nypost) July 1, 2019
Temperatures soared more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit above the March average in many parts of Alaska, a result of disappearing sea ice and a wobbly jet stream https://t.co/jkHDjW8Dsz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 10, 2019
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Swim into the Eastern Pacific Seascape Hope Spot! This massive Hope Spot (almost 770,000 square miles – bigger than the state of Alaska!) provides habitat for hammerhead sharks, migrating leatherback sea turtles, and so much more! Dive in and test your knowledge.
📸: Kip Evans pic.twitter.com/T7RL2fJPLi
— Mission Blue (@MissionBlue) September 27, 2019
Arctic Indigenous residents directly contributed to the annual @NOAA Arctic Report Card for the 1st time. Elders from 8 communities in Alaska's Bering Sea region wrote "Voices from the Front Lines of a Changing Bering Sea," This is their story: https://t.co/LVj1z4Q9fL
— Ocean Conservancy (@OurOcean) January 3, 2020
Want to Know What #ClimateChange Feels Like? Ask an Alaskan.
Vanished sea ice. Skies choked with #wildfire smoke. Animals appearing where they shouldn’t. Climate change is visible everywhere in Alaska.https://t.co/YR7vlylYjk #sealevelrise #climatecrisis #ethoslifestyle
— EthosLifestyle (@EthosLifestyle) March 1, 2020
Alaska has been in the throes of an unprecedented heat wave this summer, and the heat stress is killing salmon in large numbers https://t.co/I0b7AJpUBf
— CNN (@CNN) August 17, 2019
The heat stress that killed thousands of salmon in Alaska last month is a sign of things to come, scientist warns. https://t.co/KKZ888vJ1q
— CBC News (@CBCNews) August 24, 2019
Record heat in Alaska: Salmon are dying from heat stress
pic.twitter.com/Xzttp9NzEy— ༻⋆≺ Martin 🏳️🌈 ≻⋆༺ (@KlatuBaradaNiko) August 22, 2019
This is climate change at latitude 60° N. One of many salmon streams near Cordova, Alaska. The lack of rain & unusually warm temperatures left creek levels too low for fish to even swim up them to spawn. #ClimateChange #wildsalmon #Alaska #salmon pic.twitter.com/7pvMFYMA7d
— Jennifer Pickett, PhD (@PickfishJen) September 23, 2019
﹡UAS Press Release﹡
COEUR ALASKA INC. $20,000 DONATION CREATES MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HANDS-ON UNDERGRADUATE WORK
In total Coeur Alaska has donated $124,000 to UAS and a total of $156,700 to the UA system since 2011.
Read the entire press release at: https://t.co/yhHKxhNJme pic.twitter.com/4GEperHHdG
— UASoutheast (@uasoutheast) September 14, 2018
While we are isolated at home, two of our #UBCOceans community have been isolated on the high seas on the @yearofthesalmon 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition. Learn more here: https://t.co/9l3LHTXxbs @nataliemahara #JacobLerner @UBCpelagic @PSF
— UBC Oceans (@UBCoceans) March 25, 2020
Check out this in-depth profile from @sciencemagazine on Alaska Salmon Program scientist Daniel Schindler and the importance of his research.https://t.co/pfO2uP9ZiG
— UW SAFS (@UW_SAFS) September 30, 2019
In partnership with the Alaska Business Development Center, #Cornell Johnson MPS Accounting, #CornellDyson, and @CornellLaw students are in rural #Alaska helping low-income individuals and families with their #tax returns pic.twitter.com/1ZaHoLdX4T
— Johnson at Cornell (@CornellMBA) February 27, 2019