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Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean nations

...wealthier island of Barbados has been building a kilometer-long breakwater and waterfront promenade to help protect fragile coastlines. In most cases, international money is pouring in to kick-start "soft engineering" efforts restoring natural buffers...

http://juneauempire.com/david-mcfadden/2013-05-08/encroaching-sea-already-threat
A Trip South: Dear topes

...were dedicated to sunset surfing sessions. On we went. The coastline sprawled out before us as we made our way through the many...returned home. After more than three months traveling Mexico's coastlines, from Tijuana to La Paz, San Blas to Tapachula, and thousands...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-04-26/trip-south-dear-topes
Outdoors
Accumulated fragments: William Healey Dall

...position with the Coast Survey in which he took command of the Schooner, Humboldt, to take a detailed survey of the Alaska coastline. Later he would exchange the Humboldt for the Coast Survey ship Yukon.Over the next few years, Dall charted Alaskan waters...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-05-12/accumulated-fragments-william-heale
Neighbors
My Turn: Legislature must support renewable energy

...up by its own initiative and decided to make a big investment in renewable energy. Sitka knows Alaska, with its eroding coastlines and thawing permafrost, is already feeling the effects of Climate Change on a larger scale than any other state, and this...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-04-10/my-turn-legislature-must-support-rene
Opinion
Alaska denies study of marine invader near Sitka

...said.NFMS research biologist Katherine Miller said Alaska coastlines differ greatly from the ones near San Francisco and scientists...Miller said the denial surprised her."We've got a gigantic coastline in Alaska ... There's a lot of potential vectors for moving...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-10/alaska-denies-study-marine-invader-near
State
Analysis: Offshore drilling could tap large supplies

NEW YORK - Opening more of America's coastlines to oil and natural gas drilling won't cut energy prices...give the petroleum industry access to the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and more of Alaska's coast...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/040210/sta_599507591.shtml
News
2004 Iditarod champ takes lead in Alaska trek

...pressed forward along the Bering Sea coastline. Another musher was just 15 minutes...90-mile trip from Kaltag to the Bering Sea coastline in a little more than 12 ½ hours, going...teams head onto the frozen Bering Sea coastline and north toward the finish line in Nome...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-03-11/2004-iditarod-champ-takes-lead-alaska-
Sports
Lawmaker takes aim at state's derelict ships

...to address the problem affecting much of Alaska's massive coastline, especially the far-flung harbors."If you go to other...taxpayers $22 million.But Alaska's 33,900 miles of coastline - more than the rest of the United States combined - and reliance...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-03-04/lawmaker-takes-aim-states-derelict-ship
State
Light snow forecast for this weekend

A low-pressure system is expected to travel along the Alaskan coastline from near Kodiak Island to the Dixon Entrance from Friday morning into early Saturday, a National Weather Service forecaster at...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-10/light-snow-forecast-weekend
Local
Lecture on Alaska's coastal zones and seaweeds at state museum in Dec.

JUNEAU - How well do you really know Alaska's coastline and what does that have to do with seaweeds?Mandy Lindeberg, a federal fisheries research biologist with the National Oceanic...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-11-23/lecture-alaskas-coastal-zones-and-se
Outdoors

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