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• ICYMI: New effort shines a spotlight on ocean acidification

  30-07-2016 08:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Bob Foy, director of the NOAA lab in Kodiak, holds up tanner crab, a species expected to be impacted by ocean acidification. (Photo courtesy NOAA’s Fisheries Science Center)
  A growing chorus of Alaskans, from shellfish growers to fishermen, are fretting about the potential impacts to the state’s waters. Now a new collaboration is aiming to bring ocean acidification into the spotlight — with the hope that better understanding it will better prepare the state to adapt. Read
  
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• Nearly 400-year-old Shakespeare collection on display in Juneau

  30-07-2016 07:14 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The First Folio sits in a temperature-controlled container on display at the Alaska State Library. (Photo by Lakeidra Chavis/KTOO)
  A nearly 400-year-old book is on display in the Alaska State Library in Juneau. And it’s not just any old book, it’s the First Folio—the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays that brought his work to the world even after his death.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/07/29FOLIO.mp3In the backroom of the Rockwell bar downtown,
  
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• Democratic leaders seek bipartisan coalition in backing challengers

  30-07-2016 07:13 via ktoo.org
  
  State Democratic Party officials are backing challengers to two Democrats who caucus with the Republican-led House majority. The challengers and party officials say this will increase the chances for a bipartisan coalition.
  There’s a long history of rural legislators joining majority caucuses, regardless of the party. In the House, four Democrats from northern and Western Alaska have joined the Republican caucus since 2009.
  This year, Benjamin Nageak of Barrow and Bob Herron of Bethel are
  
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• State lifts part of ban on drug felons applying for food stamps

  30-07-2016 07:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Ivory Mack sits at her desk at Bean’s Cafe. She says a change in food-stamp rules could help recovering addicts. (Photo by Anne Hillman/KSKA)
  People with drug felonies can now apply for food stamps in Alaska.
  With the signing of Senate Bill 91, the state’s criminal justice reform bill, the state partially opted-out of the 1996 federally-imposed lifetime ban. Individuals can now apply, but they have to prove that they are complying with parole and substance abuse treatment requirement
  
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• Stikine sockeye run is the best return in a decade

  30-07-2016 07:09 via ktoo.org
  
  The Stikine River Delta, as seen from the air. The sockeye fishery on the river is larger than expected this year. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  The sockeye salmon run returning to the Stikine River near Petersburg and Wrangell was predicted to be good, but it’s turning out to be even better than expected.
  While the king salmon run for gillnetters turned out to be worse than preseason estimates, the opposite holds true for sockeye. The state-managed sockeye fishery began June 1
  
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• Alaska Peninsula volcano spews steam, ash, but no lava

  30-07-2016 07:08 via ktoo.org
  
  Pavlof Volcano erupted in March 2016, releasing a plume of ash. The current eruption is smaller. (Photo by Candace Shaack/KUCB)
  Scientists have increased the alert level for Pavlof Volcano for the second time this month. On Thursday, the Alaska Peninsula volcano showed signs of low-level eruptive activity, prompting officials to raise its alert level from “advisory” to “watch.”
  Dave Schneider is a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Alaska Volcano Observat
  
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• McHugh fire caused by unextinguished campfire

  30-07-2016 07:07 via ktoo.org
  
  A helicopter dumps water to fight the McHugh fire on July 20, 2016. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  The Department of Natural Resources has determined that an unextinguished campfire was the cause of the McHugh fire. The blaze has been raging in Chugach State Park near South Anchorage since July 16.
  According to a press release sent out Thursday, the fire began in an area not commonly used by hikers and not in an established campfire ring.The DNR announced in a release on Monday that
  
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• Unlikely allies: U.S. and Russia work together on walrus

  30-07-2016 04:15 via ktoo.org
  
  USGS Wildlife Biologist working at a haulout near Point Lay, Alaska. (Photo by Ryan Kingsbery/USGS)
  What brought Soviet Russia and the U.S. together during the Cold War? Walruses.Now a new federal database, created with over a century of information, shows where those animals haul out on both sides of the border. And that’s especially important as sea ice disappears and the animals spend more time on land.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/07/29SOVIETWALRUS.wavTony Fischbach
  
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• New effort shines a spotlight on ocean acidification in Alaska

  30-07-2016 03:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Bob Foy, director of the NOAA lab in Kodiak, holds up king crab, a species expected to be impacted by ocean acidification. (Photo courtesy NOAA’s Fisheries Science Center)
  Climate change may get all the attention, but it has a less-talked-about but no less troubling twin: ocean acidification.
  A growing chorus of Alaskans, from shellfish growers to fishermen, are fretting about the potential impacts to the state’s waters. Now a new collaboration is aiming to bring ocean acidifica
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-1-16

  30-07-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll talk with Police Chief, Bryce Johnson
  Jorden Nigro will be here with an update on the Zach Gordon Youth Center;
  Kristin Mabry and Renee Gayhart will be here with details about how you can help with this year’s Ride for the cure;
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on line via ktoo.org.
  Tune in to KTOO-NEWS at 7 tonight
  
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• Earthquake simulator to bring jolt of awareness to Southeast and Yukon

  30-07-2016 01:37 via ktoo.org
  Alaska is earthquake country. While many people don’t know the basic safety measures they should take to prepare for an earthquake, the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management wants to change that.
  The Division hopes to jolt people into awareness with a mobile earthquake simulator. The ‘Quake Cottage’ is scheduled to visit 10 communities in Southeast Alaska and the Yukon for the first time ever this fall.
  The simulator tentatively will arriv
  
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