Audience Returns to On-Water Spill Training in Seward
After a hiatus for COVID-19, observation tours resumed during annual oil spill training by fishing vessels.
After a hiatus for COVID-19, observation tours resumed during annual oil spill training by fishing vessels.
The owner-operator of the Greens Creek silver mine on Admiralty Island is donating $300,000 to create an endowment in support of the UAS environmental science program in Juneau.
A Juneau researcher presented findings to the American Geophysical Union fall meeting of microplastic particles collected in rain samples, likely blown in from the ocean.
Scientists are finding waters of the Bering Strait are becoming much noisier due to more industrial ship traffic. Alaska residents of the region have noticed more garbage floating ashore recently.
By the end of the decade, plastic waste going into the world’s oceans could weigh half as much as the total amount of seafood coming out of them. That’s one finding of a new federal study mandated by the 2020 Save Our Seas 2.0 Act.
A UAF research team found a microbe in North Pole groundwater that eats sulfolane, an industrial solvent, but the organism by itself probably can’t remedy the area’s contamination.