Alaskan Snow Crab Season Canceled for the First Time in History Due to Over 1 Billion Crabs Mysteriously Missing

Alaskan Snow Crab Season Canceled for the First Time in History Due to Over 1 Billion Crabs Mysteriously Missing

The Alaskan snow crab season has been canceled by officials as they investigate the disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs.  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has canceled the winter snow crab season for the first time in state history in the Bering Sea due to their depleting numbers. Now, scientists are […]

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Two Brown Bears Take Turns Scratching Their Back On Trees In Hilarious Video From Alaskan State Park

Two Brown Bears Take Turns Scratching Their Back On Trees In Hilarious Video From Alaskan State Park

Ahh, that’s the spot… If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: Bears are not only ferocious killers, but some of the most fascinating, and at times hilarious, creatures out there. While we spend a lot of time saying these creatures aren’t cuddly and cute like Baloo from The Jungle Book, sometimes they […]

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Arctic ice loss forces polar bears to use four times as much energy to survive – study

Arctic ice loss forces polar bears to use four times as much energy to survive – study

Polar bears and narwhals are using up to four times as much energy to survive because of major ice loss in the Arctic, according to scientists. Once perfectly evolved for polar life, apex predators are struggling as their habitats shrink and unique adaptations become less suited to an increasingly ice-free Arctic, researchers say. The mammals […]

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Petition: Trump Administration Removes Roadless Protections for Tongass National Forest

Petition: Trump Administration Removes Roadless Protections for Tongass National Forest

TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST, ALASKA — “The Roadless Rule was one of the best protections for a climate resilient forest ecosystem—important for birds, fish, and people, now and into the future,” said Natalie Dawson, executive director, Audubon Alaska. “Removing these protections is shortsighted and irresponsible. And the entire process was done without consultation with local Tribes […]

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‘There’s nowhere like it’: Alaska’s wildlife refuge fears death by drilling

‘There’s nowhere like it’: Alaska’s wildlife refuge fears death by drilling

Biologist George Schaller has traversed the Amazon rainforest, studied lions in the Serengeti and searched for rare antelope in Tibet, but for him nothing quite compares to a vast and little-known wilderness found in the north-eastern reaches of Alaska. Schaller first encountered the region in the 1950s, taking a canoe down the Colville River, a […]

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