"Alaska's Heat Wave Fuels Dangerous Smoke, Melts Glaciers"
"Alaska’s heat wave is driving wildfires and melting glaciers, choking the state’s biggest cities with smoke and bloating rivers with meltwater."
Source: Reuters, 07/02/2019
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Dramatic Ocean Warming Off Alaska Raises Concerns For Hunters, Wildlife
"Exceptionally warm ocean temperatures have melted sea ice off Alaska’s coasts far earlier than normal this year, alarming scientists and rural residents worried about the impacts to seals, seabirds and fish they hunt."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 06/27/2019
Big Environmental Impacts on Small Communities Is Story That Must Be Told
While environmental journalists often focus on regulatory wrestling matches in Washington, D.C., a seasoned New York Times investigative reporter argues the most important stories are those in the real communities where bureaucratic impacts are felt. Three-time Pulitzer winner Eric Lipton makes the case for public service in journalism that tells the environment story from the outside in.
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Southeast Alaska Experiencing First Recorded Extreme Drought
"Alaska’s wettest region is experiencing an extreme drought for the first time in recorded history, climate scientists say."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 05/28/2019
"Logging Plan For Alaska's Tongass National Forest Challenged In Court"
"Environmentalists in Alaska filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block a Trump administration plan to open vast swaths of the nation’s largest national forest to logging, nearly a third of it in old-growth timber."
Source: Reuters, 05/08/2019
Protecting Journalists from Attack, Info Row at Interior, PIO Standards and More
Do we need a bill to criminalize attacks against those who report the news? Some Dems in Congress think so. And the Interior Department is at the center of a conflicts over freedom of information involving lobbying contacts with the newly confirmed secretary. The latest WatchDog has those developments, plus more.
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Is Your Favorite River Endangered? Check the List.
The latest release of the annual endangered rivers list provides boatloads of environmental reporting angles, including climate change-related threats like flooding and drought. This week’s TipSheet has the backstory and the new top-10 list, plus 10 suggested starting points for stories and a half-dozen key reporting resources.
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"Pace of Bering Sea Changes Startles Scientists"
"The Yupik Eskimo village of Kotlik on Alaska’s northwest coast relies on a cold, hard blanket of sea ice to protect homes from vicious winter Bering Sea storms."
Source: AP, 04/15/2019
Supreme Court: Hovercraft Ruling Wades Into Alaska's Land, Water Regs
"John Sturgeon worried he was jinxing himself when he fixed up the mothballed hovercraft in his garage without knowing whether the Supreme Court would let him pilot it to his favorite moose-hunting grounds in Alaska."
Source: Greenwire, 03/27/2019
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