Barrow News

Way out there where the air smells fresh, the trees are dense, and cell phones only work as alarm clocks are make shift cabins reconnecting us to nature.

Since more Coast Guard ships and planes are operating in the Arctic, Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr.

The Coast Guard will kick off hearings Monday on how a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge used for Arctic Ocean exploratory drilling ended up aground off a remote Alaska island.

I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review " In the Beautiful,Threatened North " by Ian Frazier in The New York Review of Books of the anthology, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point that I edited.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a plan May 8 identifying 50 abandoned wells in the Alaska Arctic that it believes require clean-up by the agency.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the beaches.

The bear's mother was killed March 12 by a subsistence hunter near Point Lay, an Inupiat Eskimo whaling community 300 miles southwest of Barrow and 700 miles northwest of Anchorage.

Agency releases draft action plan for old wells on Alaska's North Slope; four Barrow-area sites are first in line for cleanup Federal land managers are acknowledging that 50 so-called legacy wells on Alaska's North Slope need plugging or site cleanup.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a plan Wednesday identifying 50 abandoned wells in the Alaska arctic that it believes require clean-up by the agency.

How much Arctic deployments are decreasing is still being debated as crews from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak fan out across the state for summer deployments, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported this week.

The spring whaling season is underway on Alaska's North Slope. The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission reports St Lawrence Island whaling crews are having success with four bowheads landed by Savoonga hunters and two for Gambell.

Despite the lingering effects of winter, spring whaling has begun in Arctic Alaska and seal hunters are also heading to the coast from Chevak in the Southwest part of the state.

This is a frame grab from the Barrow, Alaska sea ice cam . You can see a current picture and a loop of the last day or 10-days at the link.

The climate just got a little more complex. Researchers have found that sunlit snow is a major source of atmospheric bromine in the Arctic and that the surface snowpack above Arctic sea ice plays a previously unknown role in the bromine cycle.

Despite the lingering effects of winter, spring whaling has begun in Arctic Alaska and seal hunters are also heading to the coast from Chevak in the Southwest part of the state.

Bowhead Transport Company, LLC, and Crowley Marine Services, Inc., announced the formation of a joint venture to provide marine services in Alaska's Arctic.

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I like this study from the NSF, because they did hands-on empirical measurements and experiments to make the determination - Anthony Finding is related to snow atop sea ice, adding a new dimension to scientific concerns about loss of Arctic ice National Science Foundation-funded researchers at Purdue University have discovered that sunlit snow is ... (more)