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Cannibalism, infanticide: The dark side of Alaska’s bear cam

sudshr47 July 12, 2018

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On a sunny May morning in 2014, as the Alaskan subarctic was beginning to warm up, park rangers watched a young female bear, Tundra, explore the marshland around the famous Brooks River. 

Two months later, she was dead.

Tundra, also known as Bear 130, had been partially eaten by another bear.

Her grim death, like many harsh bear realities, happened beyond the view of the bear cams — the live streaming webcams set up along the mile and a half Brooks River by explore.org.

One of the peaks of the bear-viewing summer season has now arrived, as the legendary Alaskan salmon run entices brown bears to congregate around the Brooks River waterfall, in remote Katmai National Park. In this wild, far-off  realm, people globally tune in to watch bears snatching salmon out of the air, and once full of fish, dozing beside the river.  Read more…

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A dominant brown bear has returned to the Alaska bear cam, seeking fish and females

sudshr47 June 25, 2018

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Bear 747, one of the largest and most dominant Brooks River bears, has returned to his fishing grounds. 

The brown bear is one of the first spotted this year on the five webcams positioned along the salmon-rich river in Katmai National Park, Alaska.

Former Katmai ranger Mike Fitz, who has returned to the park to report on the bears for explore.org — the philanthropic organization that sets up and supports bear cam — said he spied 747 recently, and has seen other dominant bears beginning to roam the verdant area.  

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Arctic weirding goes into overdrive, with shattered ice and temperature records

sudshr47 January 26, 2018

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You won’t find many climate deniers in the Arctic. From Sitka, Alaska to Svalbard, Norway, people are living through a period of extraordinarily rapid changes that are altering their ways of life. 

Alaska just had its warmest December on record, with a staggering statewide average temperature anomaly of 15.7 degrees Fahrenheit above average for the month.

“To have an entire state that is a quarter the size, almost, of the Lower 48 [states], 15 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for an entire month is extraordinary,” said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, said in an interview.  Read more…

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Net neutrality protestors hit Verizon stores — including these two dudes in snowy Fairbanks, Alaska

sudshr47 December 8, 2017

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Defenders of a free and open internet rallied in front of Verizon stores across the U.S. Thursday. The fight to save net neutrality even made it to the only Verizon store in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Snow didn’t stop at least a couple sign-wielding protesters from showing up at the Verizon store in Fairbanks. The state’s only other Verizon locations are 360 miles away in Anchorage.

Fairbanks to Congress: #StopTheFCC. We oppose FCC chair and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai’s plan to kill #NetNeutrality! pic.twitter.com/QA7wy6OmFM

— Mary Alice Crim (@MaryAliceCrim) December 7, 2017 Read more…

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