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Alaska Native allotment signing | | newsminer. com
14+ hour, 2+ min ago (96+ words) Alaska Native allotment signing Fairbanks Daily News-Miner U. S. Interior Sec. Doug Burgum, center, signs a order conveying an Alaska Native land allotment for a Vietnam War veteran, while U. S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, left and Rep. Nick Begich III, observe during a reception…...
Lost for 50 Years Beneath Greenland Ice, This WWII Aircraft Returned to the Sky
20+ hour, 11+ min ago (699+ words) A World War II aircraft vanished into Greenland ice after an emergency landing in 1942. Decades later, recovery crews uncovered it buried under hundreds of feet of glacier ice. The restoration took years, millions of dollars, and thousands of original parts....
Most Remote Islands Inhabited by Human Populations
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (1721+ words) By Adam Garcia | Published 18 seconds ago Picture yourself standing on a dock, watching the last ferry disappear into the horizon. Now imagine that ferry comes once a week." Or once a month. Or maybe only when the weather cooperates." For…...
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (80+ words) Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Alaska's economic development agency owns federal oil and gas leases on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge " an area that's long been the subject of fierce national debate. "Let's look back at some of…...
Journalist walking across the globe for last decade takes to the sea in Southeast Alaska
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (702+ words) National Geographic journalist Paul Salopek has been walking around the world since 2013. But now that he's in Alaska, his main mode of transportation is about to change." He's following the path of Stone Age human migration out of Africa and…...
Why America, Russia and China are After Greenland
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (1581+ words) We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not. Greenland, financial security, Greenland, Greenland, Greenland" Why has this island buried under thick layers of ice suddenly become the center of the world's attention? Why is…...
A Flag in the Frost: Revisiting Greenland's Strategic Importance
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (187+ words) By Leah Valdes-Almonte May 15, 2026 On May 18, 1960, the convoy departed Camp Tuto in Thule, Greenland, a military outpost on the east edge of the Greenland ice sheet. The Project Lead Dog 60 team consisted of a five-man trail party, two helicopters, and…...
Winter breakup: The race to predict the Yukon River thaw
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (531+ words) Reading: Winter breakup: The race to predict the Yukon River thaw Since 1896, Dawson City residents have been placing bets on when the Yukon River will break in the spring " a tradition that marks the start of life returning to the…...
On the map: Examining historic Inuit migration routes between Canada and Greenland
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (465+ words) Reading: On the map: Examining historic Inuit migration routes between Canada and Greenland Though Inuit in both countries experienced colonization in different ways, connections across the Arctic remain deeply rooted in shared language, history and identity There might be an…...
Sailors from doomed 1845 polar expedition identified through DNA
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (79+ words) The identification of the remains also resolved a decades-long debate about the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration....