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Chivian and Cizik also led a 10-person expedition to Alaska last August to witness firsthand the impact climate change has had on the lives of the Inupiaq, whose island is eroding into the Chukchi...
...bears face another threat. On Feb. 6 - three days before FWS's new deadline - the Minerals Management Service (MMS), also part of the Interior Department, plans to lease 30 million acres for oil and gas drilling in the Chukchi Sea bordering Alaska, where one-fifth of the world's remaining polar bears live. Drilling - with the risk of spills and seismic damage - could further jeopardize the polar bear, and environmentalists consider it suspicious that FWS decided to delay its decision until after the lease sale. "It seems that every time there is a choice between extraction and extinction in this...
With all the other Arctic nations making their plays, it would be too much to expect the U.S. - an Arctic state itself, thanks to Alaska - to stand idly by. The Coast Guard icebreaker now on its way back from plying the waters of the Chukchi Cap, north of the Bering Strait, has charted the sea floor with a multibeam echo sounder to delineate where Alaska's continental shelf ends and the depths of the Arctic Ocean begin. But to press its case for extended territorial waters, as the other Arctic nations are doing, the U.S. needs to sign the convention...
...ETHNICITY] 67% chance of being Russian; 7% Chukchi...
...Africa have grown substantially. A study by the National Marine Fisheries Service says there were an estimated 2,050 blue whales off California in 1991, up from several hundred in 1980. And California gray whales, which migrate 13,000 miles a year between Baja California and the Bering and Chukchi seas, have increased from several thousand to 25,000 since the 1940s; they were taken off the U.S. Endangered Species List late last year...