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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday blocked oil, gas and mining operations across tracts of unspoiled wilderness in Alaska, winning praise from environmentalists for safeguarding habitat for polar bears, caribou and other Arctic species. More than 13 million acres (5.2 million hectares) will come under new federal protection, while a permit to build a major road to access mineral deposits was denied in moves that angered industry bodies and some locals. "Alaska's majestic and rugged lands and waters are among the most remarkable and healthy landscapes in the world," President Joe Bi...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden is poised to decide whether to pull the plug on a massive oil drilling project on Alaska's North Slope or allow it to go ahead. With the decision imminent, environmentalists have ramped up pressure on the White House, urging Biden to live up to the climate change pledges he made during his campaign. During the 2020 presidential race, the Democratic candidate vowed not to approve any new leases for oil and gas projects on federal lands. But Biden has found himself stuck in the middle of a years-long battle over the so-called Willow Project, a plan by US...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A polar bear killed a young woman and her baby son in a remote area of Alaska, police said, in a rare attack by an animal battling the worst effects of human-caused climate change. Police said the bear roamed into the tiny community of Wales on the far western coast of America's wildest state, where it began chasing people. It set upon 24-year-old Summer Myomick and her one-year-old son Clyde Ongtowasruk near the community's school, state troopers said. A local resident shot and killed the animal during the attack, but the mauling was so severe that mother and baby perished...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A polar bear on a rampage killed a woman and a boy in a remote area of Alaska, police said, in a rare attack on humans. The bear was itself then shot and killed by a resident in the tiny community of Wales, on the far western coast of Alaska. "Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents," police said in a statement on Tuesday's attack. "The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male -- it was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair," police said, adding that state troopers and Fish a...
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Anchorage (AFP) - Residents in towns and villages on Alaska's western coast were beginning Sunday to assess the damage from one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in decades. The vast remains of Typhoon Merbok battered coastal towns as it rumbled northward, and by Sunday morning it had largely moved into the Chukchi Sea, north of the Bering Strait. But coastal towns in that northern region remained under flood warnings Sunday, the National Weather Service (NWS) Fairbanks office tweeted. The storm has hammered a vast stretch of Alaska's lengthy coastline, bringing powerful winds, tid...
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Washington (AFP) - US authorities on Thursday said they intend to re-establish environmental protections to a bay in Alaska that would block a controversial gold and copper mine project. The Bristol Bay watershed "is an Alaskan treasure that underscores the critical value of clean water in America," said Environmental Protection Agency chief Michael Regan. "What's at stake is preventing pollution that would disproportionately impact Alaska Natives, and protecting a sustainable future for the most productive salmon fishery in North America," he said. Bristol Bay is home to a vast wild salmon ru...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration intends to show its firmness against Beijing in its first meeting with Chinese diplomatic leaders in Alaska on Thursday, but does not expect immediate results, US officials said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan are set for talks with senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi that represent "an initial discussion to understand... our interests, intentions and priorities," one senior US official told reporters Tuesday. "Sometimes there is sense, potential...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A major 7.5-magnitude quake off the coast of Alaska triggered small tsunami waves Monday, US agencies said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.Residents evacuated to higher ground as tsunami warnings covered much of the southern coast of the remote US state, including the thinly populated Alaska Peninsula, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Two-foot waves were recorded at the tiny nearby city of Sand Point, some 60 miles (100km) from the epicenter of the quake which struck at a depth of 25 miles (40 km).The at-risk zone...
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