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Alaska’s rivers are rusting

Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy—and in some cases, they may be becoming more acidic.

Nancy Fresco: In Alaska, everyone's grappling with climate change

Nancy Fresco: In Alaska, everyone's grappling with climate change

For everyone from traditional hunters to the military, the National Park Service to the oil industry, climate change is the new reality in Alaska. Government, residents and businesses are all trying to adapt.

Keep oil drilling rigs off coasts, senators tell Interior Secretary
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Keep oil drilling rigs off coasts, senators tell Interior Secretary

Turning America's coastal waters over to the oil and gas industry is not healthy for states' economies or the environment, 37 senators say in a blunt letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Joel Connelly: Oil industry move on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge set to begin

Millions of acres of Arctic Alaska stand open and available for petroleum exploration, but industry's eyes have been focused for 40 years on the wild, wildlife-rich, 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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