The Johnson Tract gold mine would devastate the only known winter feeding grounds for critically endangered Cook Inlet belugas, one of Alaska's great brown bear areas, the largest seabird nesting colony in Cook Inlet, and so much more.
But they have to go through us. NO gold mines.
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We filed a lawsuit against a major Alaskan gold mine exploration project to protect the critically endangered Cook Inlet belugas and defend against acid mine drainage into Lake Clark National Park, Alaska Maritime National Refuge, and critical habitat for the beluga whales.
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Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.
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#EV #Batteries #Solar #Energy #Mining #Climate
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was unconstitutional, an Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Friday.
(From @alaskabeacon.com)
Another desperate trip to Japan by AK state officials in search of the elusive investor for the $44 billion AK LNG pipeline that makes no financial or climate sense.
A wise state would take this money and invest in renewable energy and public education, but that is not what we have.
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Had this enforcement-refusal been in place during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon, BP would not have been forced to pay the $100 million in fines that it did to clean up the Gulf of Mexico and save birds.
These kinds of local, artisanal businesses are the future of the Tongass, not going back to clearcutting old-growth trees for export. And they're mutually exclusive. The old-growth forests of the Tongass are the heart of the ecosystem and so important for mitigating climate change.
When did I miss the news that Mary Peltola is running for governor in 2026?
Let's be clear, the Forest Service's Tongass Assessment is neither complete nor deep, and they have "studied" very little. It appears hastily thrown together with lots of outdated and incorrect info. It's far from an adequate scientific foundation for one of the planet's most important forests.
Gov. Dunleavy thinks Alaska's gas is "low carbon" 🤦
"...that gas has been recycled for almost 50 years on the North Slope. We know the content, we know the amount it's recycled back into the basin when that gas is then piped down through the pipeline — that carbon could be extracted from that gas."
NOAA Fisheries observers in Alaska face regular harassment; women twice as often as men.
This is unacceptable.
Importantly, we rely on these observers to document bycatch of imperiled marine mammals and fish.
Intimidation may not be unintentional.
This system is broken.
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This is why we won't stop fighting against bottom trawl research in the largely undisturbed Arctic, especially because so many marine mammals up there are co-evolved to feed on the shallow sea floor and depend upon a healthy benthic ecosystem for their survival.
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And the contents on the deck from a 2017 NOAA trawl survey on the west Florida shelf, including sponges and myriad reef fish.
Here's what NOAA bottom trawl fisheries research really looks like - this photo is from a 2021 NOAA survey in the Gulf of Mexico - nets full of sponges, reef fish, etc.
NOAA doing a job here trying to make its bottom trawl fisheries research look innocuous.
Rather, bottom trawl research, especially year after year in the same location, can cause real damage, downgrading ecosystems and reducing biodiversity.
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The dissonance between the reality of this headline and Trump's Alaska Executive Order aspiring to declare open season on oil and gas development in the state makes my head explode.
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Not at all unexpected, but still surreal to see. It's an order to bring about an all out plunder upon Alaska.
This is such a horrific vision for Alaska.
It could spell the end for Alaska's caribou, salmon, polar bears, walrus, and so much more.
We say NO.
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So long (again) Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area (EO 13990), which among other important things, closed this critical marine region to the use of commercial trawl fishing gear that makes contact with the seafloor (i.e. "pelagic" pollock trawling and bottom trawling).
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We're hiring for an experienced attorney fired up to hold the line against the oncoming Trump onslaught up here in Alaska.
Come join our team or share with your friends!
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While Northern fur seals moms struggle to rear and nurse strong young pups on St. Paul island, their main food source, Alaskan pollock, is over-harvested and being bought up by taxpayer dollars to bail out the industry. Its annual catch was raised for 2025.
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Change in annual average temperature for the 50-years 1975-2024 for the 13 NOAA/NCEI climate divisions. Change in excess of 6ºF on the North Slope to just over 2ºF in central and southern Southeast Alaska.
Updated 50-year change of annual temperature for the Alaska climate divisions, now for 1975-2024. Largest changes are in the North Slope and West Coast divisions and driven by, you guessed it, sea ice loss. Data from NOAA/NCEI. #akwx #Climate #ClimateChange @climatologist49.bsky.social
Yesterday was a good day for the Arctic Refuge.
BREAKING: The Liberty Unit - the only offshore oil and gas leases fully in federal waters in the Arctic Ocean - is DEAD!
It'd be impossible to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. The bowhead whales, polar bears, and ice seals can sleep a little easier tonight.
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"Astonishingly, the U.S. is the only Arctic coastal nation that still has no permanently protected Arctic Ocean waters. Russia, Canada, Norway and Greenland all have established permanent Arctic marine protected areas."
Important op-ed from my friend Rick Steiner.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game wants to kill up to 80% of wolves, brown bears, and black bears from roaring helicopters right on the borders of Denali and Lake Clark national parks.
We must urge Alaska to reject this proposal and take bears and wolves out of the crosshairs. Take action ⬇️
One of my favorite solar energy statistics is that during the ENTIRE month of December, Fairbanks receives the same solar energy as Tucson, AZ, does by 8:30 a.m. on Dec 1st. (Computed using USCRN solar data from NCEI.) @alaskawx.bsky.social
