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Leaders from Alaska's St. Lawrence Island take contamination claims to UN
Tribes from the Bering Sea isle say they’re living — and dying— with the toxic legacy of Cold War military installations. A U ...
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Federal judge upholds Bering Sea trawl fisheries managers’ decisions amid salmon crisis
The Tanana Chiefs Conference and the Association of Village Council Presidents had sued the federal government.
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Federal judge rejects tribes’ bid for review of Alaskan fishery catch limits
The judge agreed with the National Marine Fisheries Service that its review of the annual harvest specifications sufficiently ...
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In The Chilly Bering Strait, The US And Russia Are Only 3.8 Kilometers Apart
R ussia and the US might feel like two places that are worlds apart, but sitting in the middle of the Bering Strait are two tiny islands that prove otherwise. With just 3.8 kilometers (2.4 miles ...
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Exploration and Settlement on the Alaskan Coast
The first sighting took place on July 15, when the St. Paul, under the command of Bering's second-in-command, Aleksei Chirikov, reached Prince of Wales Island. Bering's own ship, the St. Peter ...
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Lawsuit Launched to Challenge Destructive Bottom-Trawl Study in Bering Sea
Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, and the Center detailed concerns in today’s notice about how the project’s data could be used to expand destructive commercial bottom trawling. “As stewards of the ...
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Earthquake of 5.1 magnitude rocks Commander Islands in Pacific Ocean
According to regional emergencies ministry, residents of the Kamchatka region, including of the Nikolsky settlement on the Bering Island (Commander Islands), did not feel underground tremors.
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Major fossil find of extinct sea cow unearthed in Russia’s Far East
"The last discovery of a three-meter skeleton was made on the Bering Island [to the east of the Kamchatka peninsula] in 1987." This newly-discovered skeleton is 5.2 meters long. It will be later ...
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Leaders from Alaska's St. Lawrence Island take contamination claims to U.N.
Sandra Gologergen from Savoonga has lost many members of her immediate family to cancer. She believes military contamination on St. Lawrence Island is a cause. The tribal governments of Alaska's ...