...The enormity of bringing a face to the explorer whose name is on the Bering Strait, Bering Sea, Bering Islands, Bering Glacier, and Bering Land Bridge and returning that face to Sitka is enormous. "Very heavy," Zviagin laughed as he held...
...of some land near Yakutat's Bering Glacier to mineral development, as well...preserve a large area called the Bering Glacier Research Natural Area, but allow...BLM's proposal creating the Bering Glacier Research Natural Area, but opposes...
...other vehicles. The plan could affect about 1.6 million acres of federal land. Most of that land includes the Bering Glacier, but it also covers parts of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline utility corridor and the Gulkana and Delta rivers...
...The targeted land, near the Bering Glacier west of Yakutat, is off-limits...on resource extraction for the Bering Glacier and nearby deglaciated forelands...values. The entire area - both the Bering Glacier and the 215,000 acres targeted...
...On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August...
...blame, Greenpeace International said today. The Bering Glacier, about 350 miles northwest of Juneau, has shrunk...Iceland, Norway and New Zealand. The rate of the Bering Glacier's decline has accelerated over the last two decades...
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