Alaska's Cook Inlet was home to nearly 1,300 beluga whales in the late 1970s, but today the population hovers around 300. Despite almost two decades of recovery work, the whales aren't bouncing back.
FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone ...
Rising utility bills are only the beginning, four former Anchorage mayors warn, unless the Legislature clears a path for ...
A looming shortage of Cook Inlet natural gas means a majority of Alaska residents are likely to see a jump in costs in the coming years to heat and power their homes, according to a new report ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition brought by Alaska commercial fishers challenging federal management of the Upper ...
An unusual offering of royalty-free oil and gas leases in the Cook Inlet basin drew a few bids, with state officials describing the experiment as successful. Bids for six tracts were submitted in the ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The population of endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continues to decline, federal marine mammal authorities announced Tuesday. A biennial survey conducted by the ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Conservation groups today threatened to sue the Trump administration for approving oil exploration in Alaska’s Cook Inlet after new federal data found a dramatic decline in the area ...
Two companies successfully bid on nearly 21,000 acres of oil and gas tracts in Cook Inlet this week. HEX Group and Strong Energy Resources both purchased leases in the state’s spring sale, for a ...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal ...
In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2017, provided by NOAA Fisheries, a newborn beluga whale calf sticks its head out of the water in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska. The population of endangered beluga whales in ...
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