Alaska
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Shannon Stevens was treated with first aid kit after incident in which bear face was seen at at toilet seat level
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About 1,115 prisoners of the the total 1,236 prisoners at the Goose Creek correctional center had tested positive
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Denial of permit to controversial Pebble gold and copper delights environmental and indigenous rights activists
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Administration to permit logging in the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest
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‘Kitty was seven months old and fearless. She’d saunter out on deck in the middle of storms and hunt seagulls bigger than she was’
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The Tongass forest sequesters 3m tons of C0 2 annually, the equivalent of removing 650,000 gas-burning cars off the roads every year
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Technology is keeping patches of permafrost frozen to preserve infrastructure but Alaska’s indigenous residents face effects of climate crisis alone
Weatherwatch Fierce cyclone in North Pacific marks end of year of record weather events