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February 20, 2014

Media Advisory: USGS to Host Congressional Briefing: Earthquake Science and Remaining Mysteries

It's 1964 in Alaska. Imagine 4.5 minutes of powerful ground shaking underneath you from a magnitude 9.2 earthquake. You and your loved ones are then...

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January 20, 2014

Sea Ice Decline and Permafrost Thaw Create Goose Habitat in Arctic Alaska

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey report that warming temperatures are leading to the creation of high quality habitats for geese along the...

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November 21, 2013

New Book Celebrates Cup’ik Youth

25 Years of Goose Banding and Conservation through Federal and Tribal Partnership on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Western Alaska

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February 8, 2013

Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice

A USGS film released in November 2012 will take you on a journey along with USGS researchers tracking walruses going about their daily lives in the...

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December 2, 2011

Pacific Walruses Studied as Sea Ice Melts

USGS Alaska Science Center researchers, in cooperation with the Native Village of Point Lay, Alaska, attached 74 satellite radio tags to Pacific...

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February 4, 2011

Projected Losses of Arctic Sea Ice and Polar Bear Habitat May Be Reduced if Greenhouse-Gas Emissions are Stabilized

USGS-led research provides evidence that during this century there does not seem to be a tipping point at which sea-ice loss would become irreversible...

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