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"Exxon To Pay $500 Million in Interest To Spill Victims" [1]

"Exxon Mobil said Monday it won't appeal nearly $500 million in interest a court recently ordered it to pay to Alaska fishermen, business owners and others harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill."
People & Population [2]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: McClatchy [5], 07/01/2009

Projects in 12 States Share Wildfire Funding [6]

$15 million of Stimulus funding for 55 projects, designed to help reduce wildfire hazards and reclaim burned lands, could be of substantial interest in the receiving communities.
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TipSheet [7]
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Disasters [8]
Forests [9]
Government [10]
Region: 
Northwest (OR WA) [11]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
California [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
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"As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It’s Land That’s Rising" [16]

In Alaska, some land is rising as it is relieved of the weight of glaciers melted by climate change.
Climate Change [17]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: NYTimes [18], 05/19/2009

"Alaskan Lake's Fate Could Echo Across Continent" [19]

Test Teaser
Natural Resources [20]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [21], 03/25/2009

Troubles In Paradise:SEJ Members Study Tropical Ecosystems In Hawai'i [22]

 

  By JENNIFER OLADIPO

SEJ members Joy Horowitz, Erin K.D. Judd, Charlotte Kidd and Jennifer Oladipo were four of seven environmental reporting fellows at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawai'i in May.

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Environmental Studies [23]
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Alaska and Hawaii [4]
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Public [3]

Magic Number: a Sketchy "Fact" About Polar Bears Keeps Going...And Going... And Going [24]

By PETER DYKSTRA

When Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species in May, the political trench warfare over global warming flared up anew. Environmental groups professed surprise that a reluctant Bush Administration acted at all. Global warming deniers said the decision was ludicrous. They cited a polar bear population — a five-fold increase since the 1970s, a doubling since the 1950s, a quadrupling since the 1960s.

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Climate Change [17]
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Alaska and Hawaii [4]
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Public [3]

Groups Sue Interior For Hidden Evidence on Chukchi Lease Sale [25]

Two conservation groups are suing the Interior Department to get hidden documents they say could show the sale would harm polar bears and other marine mammals.
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WatchDog TipSheet [26]
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Biodiversity [27]
Region: 
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
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Public [3]

Info on Clean Water Priced Like Gold in Alaska [28]

"When an environmental group, Alaskans for Clean Water, asked for copies of state records about an unsuccessful ballot proposal to limit mining pollution, officials initially said they would turn over the documents — for $50,000," the Associated Press reported October 20, 2008.
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Government [10]
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Alaska and Hawaii [4]
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