Sustainable North

From Alaska Dispatch, Wednesday, March 3, 2010: Skepticism about climate change is going mainstream, and that is worrying. One-third of Americans now say global warming doesn’t exist — triple the percentage of three years ago. This defiance of science isn’t just harmful for the environment. It’s also distracting us from growing threats to US national [...]

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From The New York Times, Wednesday, Februrary 3, 2010: President Obama moved on Wednesday to bolster the nation’s production of corn-based ethanol and other alternative liquid fuels and ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal. The president is trying to expand the portfolio of American energy [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, January 29, 2010: The federal government will take steps to cut its energy use and reduce its heat-trapping emissions by 28 percent by 2020, compared with 2008 levels, the White House announced on Friday.The government is the largest user of electricity and fuel in the country, accounting for roughly [...]

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From The New York Times, Thursday, January 21, 2010: The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show. The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, January 15, 2010: The Federal Subsistence Board has approved research to look for possible links between climate change and fishing patterns in three regions of Alaska. The projects will take three to four years and cost $930,000, according to the Office of Subsistence Management. Researchers will talk to village households [...]

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From CBC News, Tuesday, December 15, 2009: A new study suggests the financial burden of Arctic climate change is already falling on Inuit people and the heaviest costs are hurting those families least able to pay. The study backs demands made by Inuit leaders for a share of global funds being proposed to help adapt [...]

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From The Christian Science Monitor, Thursday, December 3, 2009: When e-mails of climate scientists hacked from a British University were published online, the reverberations were heard around the world. Skeptics of human-caused climate change were elated: Several of the e-mails could be read to indicate that data was inaccurate or fudged, and some seemed to imply collusion [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, November 23, 2009: The university said it will collaborate on a multimillion-dollar study of how climate change could be impacting lakes, rivers and streams in Alaska and Hawaii. The multi-disciplinary environmental research project will focus partly on the influence changes in North Pacific weather systems have on freshwater resources, [...]

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From The New York Times, Wednesday, November 18, 2009: The Earth’s oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept [...]

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From The New York Times, Tuesday, November 17, 2009: Today, President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy. Click here to read the full story.

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