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A tiny Arctic village in Alaska is trying to revive its polar bear tourism industry
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (754+ words) It's a spectacle that once brought 1, 000 or more tourists each year to Kaktovik, the only settlement in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in a phenomenon sometimes called "last chance tourism" " a chance to see magnificent sights and creatures before climate…...
The National Weather Service issues Alaska's first ever heat advisory
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (580+ words) It's not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the nation's coldest state, but the National Weather Service only recently allowed for heat advisories to be issued there. Information on similarly warm weather conditions previously came…...