en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved editor@sightline.org ask_us@sightline.org Most recent Alaska headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif http://daily.sightline.org 427 69 Alaska's political leadership has condemned the National Marine Fisheries Service's proposed designation of the "critical habitat" needed for Cook Inlet's beluga whale population to recover. The federal agency needs to take these concerns seriously and modify its proposal. http://juneauempire.com/stories/031510/opi_590792152.shtml Water Wildlife Alaska 03/15/2010 Juneau Empire A group in Kodiak is starting a program to use local seafood in the school lunch program. It has seed money to start this year and will work with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, local canneries and processors so fishing families can donate fish to a processor to package for school use. http://www.adn.com/2010/03/07/1172896/group-plans-to-provide-fish-for.html Food & Farms Human Health Water Alaska 03/08/2010 Anchorage Daily News US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has picked Alaska for the first of the department's eight planned regional climate science centers. http://www.adn.com/2010/03/04/1167889/interior-department-chooses-alaska.html Climate Alaska 03/04/2010 Anchorage Daily News The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Discoveries/2010/0303/Glacier-melting-a-key-clue-to-tracking-climate-change Climate Environment Alaska 03/03/2010 Christian Science Monitor The federal listing of polar bears as a threatened species so outraged Alaska lawmakers, they considered spending more than a million dollars for a public relations effort to reverse the decision. A request for proposals from public relations firms now has more modest goals. http://www.adn.com/2010/02/28/1161739/lawmakers-tone-down-effort-to.html Climate Environment Wildlife Alaska 03/01/2010 Anchorage Daily News What happens when two guys from Seward, Alaska, take off for Seattle in kayaks? A lot of laughs, according to kayaker and filmmaker Josh Thomas. But not slapstick comedy so much as slices of life that become humorous in their very complexity. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2011190948_kayak26.html?syndication=rss Environment Alaska British Columbia Washington 02/25/2010 Seattle Times An environmental group petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reduce soot, saying it accelerates melting of glaciers and sea ice. http://www.adn.com/2010/02/22/1151372/group-petitions-epa-to-reduce.html Pollution & Toxics Alaska 02/23/2010 Anchorage Daily News Eight Democratic senators, including Mark Begich of Alaska, are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate pollution blamed for global warming. http://www.adn.com/2010/02/22/1151670/begich-joins-8-democrats-in-opposing.html Climate Environment Policy Alaska United States 02/23/2010 Anchorage Daily News A new poll finds Anchorage residents like having moose and bears as neighbors - they just don't want any more of them. http://www.adn.com/2010/02/20/1149397/poll-finds-anchorage-likes-wildlife.html Environment Sprawl & Transportation Wildlife Alaska 02/21/2010 Anchorage Daily News