Sentences with phrase «alaskan villages»

For his work with the Iditarod, Dr. Tim Hunt travels through rural Alaskan villages.

The municipality of Anchorage is about the size of Delaware alone, and many of the smaller towns and Native Alaskan villages have less than 250 - 300 residents with no direct road system to connect them.

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto has also been proactive in advocacy for coastal Alaskan villages suffering from global warming as well as implementation of a «green» purchasing policy.

Residents of sinking tropical islands and flooding Alaskan villages are the dramatic examples of global - warming refugees that come most readily to mind.

(AP)-- Erosion threatens to topple coastal Alaskan villages.

From what I've read, the scenery is spectacular, dotted with Alaskan villages and wonderful hiking opportunities.

She was originally bred in Alaskan villages from a mix of various Northern breeds, including the Siberian Husky, Greyhound, and the German Shorthaired - Pointer.

Her experience includes teaching learners in remote Alaskan villages, inner cities, and rural communities.

The team races to Sitka, where a hunter's been shot in the back; two men in Kodiak abandon a sinking boat; guardsmen load a sleigh with holiday cheer and visit remote Alaskan villages.

Multiple Alaskan villages have already begun preparing for the need to relocate.

Multiply that by the 20 million SUVs on the road and you start to see Alaskan villages subsiding under the Arctic seas.

It could be another week before outstanding 50,000 outstanding ballots — and an unknown number of absentee ballots from rural Alaskan villages — are counted.

They left her outside of her Alaskan village on a cliff, with no help around.

Pawa also led the plaintiffs in a 2008 case, Kivalina v. Exxon Mobil Corp., in which an Alaskan village made arguments against Exxon similar to those that Oakland and San Francisco are making now.

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In this Alaskan village, there is a tight - knit community where traditions are starting to fade, just as the youth feel they are trapped by limited opportunities, leading to underage drinking.

Set in a remote Alaskan village, the film's great strength is making the landscape utterly extraordinary to the audience but painfully mundane to its protagonists.

In one of the original climate lawsuits, filed in 2008 on behalf of the Alaskan village of Kivalina, the plaintiffs made the same claims as New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco — including the specific citation of «potentially irreversible» impacts and a «significant loss of life» as a result of climate change.

Al «Bear» Ketzler, City Manager of Tanana, Alaska, a remote and mainly Native Alaskan village, located at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana Rivers, that increasingly relies on biomass and solar power.

Note: this is a companion article for the story: The Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg takes a fossil fueled trip to a remote Alaskan village to tell us recent global warming caused it to sink — but that's not the cause I this essay, you'll see why what some people perceive as «global warming» in Alaska...

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

This year, we look forward to seeing 2012 Prize recipient Caroline Cannon, an Inupiat from the native Alaskan Village of Point Hope.

This tiny Alaskan village is home to about 100 people.

Not exact matches

On the itinerary also are Dillingham in southwestern Alaska and Kotzebue in the northwest Arctic region, both villages with a majority Native Alaskan population that are affected by warming - related problems.

The Government Accountability Office recently reported that 180 Alaskan coastal villages are threatened because of melting sea ice and permafrost.

Last fall the small Alaskan coastal village of Kivalina was inundated by a mysterious orange «goo» (click for photo).

Daniel's central character is similar to himself - a formerly violent teenager brought up as the only white boy in an Alaskan Inuit village.

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Both the Coastal Eskimo Dog and the Alaskan Interior Village Dog descended from the ancient dogs of nomadic hunter gathers that used the Bering Land Bridge to migrate across the Bering Strait into Alaska over 14,000 years ago.

The history of the Alaskan Husky starts with the numerous native village dogs of North America present in the region well prior to the arrival of the Europeans and Russians.

Over time, he was responsible for further dilution and replacement of the Alaskan Interior Village dog, by mixing in his imported Siberian Huskies.

Thus started the demise of the Alaskan Interior Village dog.

Renowned for their hardiness, happy nature and hard work ethic, numerous Siberian Huskies were taken to rural villages and mixed with the native village dogs creating Alaskans [The forbearer of the Alaskan Husky].

Within the racing world there are yet again many different types yet, with many sprinting champions now being hound and pointer crosses, and a number of the champion long distance runners are Alaskan Huskies of varying genetic background (ie, Siberian, Wolf, Village dogs, etc.).

This involved spending time out in the bush of Alaska working among the native Alaskans as part of public health service and training exercises, vaccinating 1,500 sled dogs in 23 remote villages and setting up dog bite prevention programs for village children.

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.