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This photo provided by the City of Nome shows the inner harbor of the Port of Nome, Alaska, on Aug. 11, 2017, where goods at that arrive at the port are then prepared for shipment to villages throughout the region. Shipping lanes that were once clogged with ice for much of the year along Alaska's western and northern coasts have relented thanks to global warming, and the nation's first deep water Arctic port should be operational in Nome by the end of the decade. (Nome Harbormaster Lucas Stotts/City of Nome via AP)

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Cruising to Nome: The first U.S. deep water port for the Arctic to host cruise ships, military
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,06/17/23-11:45PM , 75 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into into the tundra city's tiny port. Its well-heeled tourists had to shimmy into small boats for another ride to shore.
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A male sage grouse struts in the early morning hours outside Baggs, Wyo., on April 22, 2015. A federal judge on Friday, June 2, 2023, yanked the U.S. government's approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho. The decision comes five months after the judge ruled the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated environmental laws when it approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine in 2019. Those include a failure to consider the indirect impact of processing ore at a nearby plant and the impact on sage grouse. (Dan Cepeda/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP)

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Approval for Idaho phosphate mine reversed after judge rules US didn't assess prairie bird impact
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Mon,06/05/23-5:38PM , 30 Reads
A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on sage grouse, a bird species that has seen an 80% decline in population since 1965.
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A channel flows through the mud flats along the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm in Alaska on Oct. 25, 2014. Authorities said, a 20-year-old man from Illinois who was walking Sunday evening, May 21, 2023, on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary, got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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'Mother Nature has no mercy': Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in
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Mon,05/22/23-8:31PM , 29 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said.
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Flames are visible from the Beluga Point parking area near Anchorage, Alaska, on July 19, 2016, as a wildfire near McHugh Creek burns. A recent series of wildfires near Anchorage and the hottest day on record have sparked fears that a warming climate could soon mean serious, untenable blazes in urban areas — just like in the rest of the drought-plagued American West. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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Wildfires in Anchorage? Climate change sparks disaster fears
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,04/29/23-11:46PM , 47 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Research on a flat spot for air evacuations. Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of urban firefighters training in wildland firefighting techniques while snow still blankets the ground.
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