As the last of extra chairs hastily distributed to accommodate the unexpectedly large turnout were filled, a projector screen glowed at the front of the room. Over 60 people gathered at Old St Joes to hear an update from Graphite One, a company building a mine to the north of Nome near the Imuruk Basin.
A push is being made to protect a rare flower that s only found on the Seward Peninsula. Dive Alaska pulled almost 4,000 pounds of trash from Whittier Harbor. And Trekkies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare Arctic plant called the Alaskan glacier buttercup under the Endangered Species Act.
Graphite is a critical ingredient in the batteries needed to power America’s electric vehicle revolution. But every ounce of it is imported. A proposed mine in a remote part of Alaska would change that. But some of the people who live nearby fear it will endanger their way of life.