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Mar. 7, 2013 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Arctic shipping, Heavy fuel oil, John kaltenstein, Whales
With Arctic sea ice melting dramatically due to global warming and natural resource development and trade on the upswing, the region is confronting substantial growth in commercial shipping within its waters. Increased Arctic shipping raises threa...
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Jan. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Adam russell, Arctic shipping
Update: As of late in the evening of January 6th, the Kulluk has been attached to a tow line and pulled away from the shore of Sitkalidak Island, where it had previously been grounded. The salvage efforts were aided in part by a late high tide and...
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Dec. 14, 2012 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Arctic shipping, John kaltenstein
Two recent articles outline well some of the harms that Arctic shipping, and shipping more generally, poses to the environment. Rick Steiner, a former professor at the University of Alaska, writes, in particular, about shipping through the Unimak ...
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