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Varieties of kelp are seen underwater. (National Marine Sanctuary photo provided by NOAA)

Federally funded project will search for rare earth elements in Southeast Alaska seaweed

By Yereth Rosen - December 1, 2023

Houses, seen on Aug. 2, 2022, teeter on the edge of an Utqiagvik bluff that is being rapidly eroded by permafrost thaw. The house on the right has been abandoned. At the base of the bluff are SuperSacks filled with sand, placed there as part of the effort to hold back ocean waves and slow down erosion. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Inuit group, citing dramatic effects in the Arctic, calls for bigger role in international climate action

By Yereth Rosen - November 30, 2023

The U.S. Capitol is seen. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)

U.S. House votes to bar use of public lands for housing migrants

By Ariana Figueroa - November 30, 2023

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GOP senators walk out of vote on subpoenas in U.S. Supreme Court ethics inquiry

BY Ashley Murray - November 30, 2023

‘Forever chemicals’ in thousands of private wells near military sites, study finds

BY Patricia Kime - November 29, 2023

There’s lots of gas in Cook Inlet — here’s why some companies aren’t drilling

BY Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal - November 29, 2023

High fees, long waits cast shadow over new criminal expungement laws

BY Amanda Hernández - November 29, 2023

Ahead of climate conference, U.S. House panel tussles over curbs on emissions

BY Jacob Fischler - November 29, 2023

With law enforcement sparse, Alaska villages build network of safety for survivors

BY Claire Stremple - November 29, 2023

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Effective gun laws can save the lives of Alaskans

BY April Rochford - November 30, 2023

Facing transboundary mining, Alaskans shouldn’t buy industry rhetoric

BY Guy Archibald - November 28, 2023

SAD lamps: do they work? Experts explain how they help the winter blues

BY Colin Davidson and Claire Hutchinson - November 21, 2023

Luminous ‘mother-of-pearl’ clouds explain why climate models miss so much Arctic warming

BY Katrin Meissner, Deepashree Dutta and Martin Jucker - November 17, 2023

Steller sea lions top list of Alaska marine mammals killed by human activities

BY Yereth Rosen - November 23, 2023

Alaska’s Sen. Murkowski and colleagues make another attempt to win ratification of oceans treaty

BY Yereth Rosen - November 17, 2023

Alaska minimum wage set to increase in new year; additional hikes proposed in ballot initiative

BY Yereth Rosen - November 17, 2023

Climate change report highlights impacts to Alaska infrastructure, security, health, livelihoods

BY Yereth Rosen - November 16, 2023

Domestic Violence in Alaska

A series that chronicles the state's response to a crisis of violence that has affected nearly half of the women in Alaska

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The deadly landslide that struck Wrangell on the night of Nov. 20 is seen the next day. (Photo provided by Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)

Deadly Wrangell landslide is part of a pattern in vulnerable Alaska mountainous terrain

By Yereth Rosen - November 28, 2023

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, leads a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (Screenshot from U.S. Senate webcast)

Gun violence as a public health crisis explored by U.S. Senate Democrats

By Ariana Figueroa - November 28, 2023

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, nominee for Social Security commissioner, is seen on July 19, 2023. (Photo courtesy of the Executive Office of the Governor of Maryland.)

U.S. Senate panel advances former Maryland governor’s nomination to lead Social Security

By Jennifer Shutt - November 28, 2023

This view is from Wrangell on Sept. 11, 2022. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus/ICT)

Conservation group supports formation of new Alaska Native corporations

By Joaqlin Estus - November 28, 2023

A mural painted on the side of a boarded up apartment complex in Eagle Butte depicts an infant holding the hand of an elder. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)

South Dakota inspired ICWA but still has high rate of Native children in foster care

By Makenzie Huber and Annie Todd - November 27, 2023

Wildfires in September 2020 burned a large swath of the Oregon Cascades. (Photo courtesy Oregon State University)

Climate change, drought, wildfires reduce value of private forestland in the West by billions

By Alex Baumhardt - November 27, 2023

Charlene Apok leads Data for Indigenous Justice and works with the state's Maternal Child Death Review to understand maternal mortality in Alaska. Apok analyzed data in their office on Sept. 25, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)

Data links Alaska’s sky-high maternal mortality rate to domestic violence

By Claire Stremple - November 27, 2023

Smokestack emissions are seen along the Fairbanks skyline on March 1. At left is the coal-fired heat and power plant on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

EPA gives partial approval to state plan for improving Interior Alaska air quality

By Yereth Rosen - November 27, 2023