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		<title>Alaskans&#8217; Astronomical Bragging Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/08/news-from-alaska/alaskans-astronomical-bragging-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Davis</dc:creator>
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Crab Nebula
Courtesy of Neil Davis

Texans are known as braggarts, but in the arena of geography, they can&#8217;t start to compete with Alaskans who can brag about the facts that we are the biggest state, the northernmost state, the westernmost state, and the easternmost state, plus we have the longest coastline of any state, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prehistoric sea &#8216;Monster&#8217; uncovered in Arctic</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/02/28/news-from-alaska/prehistoric-sea-monster-uncovered-in-arctic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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The pliosaur would have ruled the sea More images from the project
Artwork by Tor Sponga, BT

Forget Jurassic Park and those cuddly velociraptors. For a real prehistoric nightmare, check out what an international team of scientists unearthed last year in the far north Atlantic island group of Svalbard.
With jaws large to munch a modern killer whale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s best seeds head for Arctic vault</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/01/25/news-from-alaska/the-worlds-best-seeds-head-for-arctic-vault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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A drawing of the Svalbard Seed Vault
Source: Global Seed Trust

By the tens of thousands, the seeds will come: strains of Mexican maize, sturdy varieties of African wheat, Southeast Asian rice that feeds the masses. They&#8217;re what one scientist calls &#8220;the crown jewels&#8221; of the world&#8217;s agricultural heritage, all of them on now getting packaged at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAARP probes the moon with radar</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/01/08/news-from-alaska/haarp-probes-the-moon-with-radar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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The antenna array at HAARP outside Gakona
Source: HAARP

How long does it take to radio the Moon? 2.4 seconds.
Radar pulses from the HAARP research station outside Gakona in Alaska&#8217;s Copper River basin have been bounced off the moon and picked up by a radio telescope system in New Mexico &#8212; the lowest frequency radar echo from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird mud waves ripple Arctic abyss</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/22/news-from-alaska/weird-mud-waves-ripple-arctic-abyss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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The Russian nuclear icebreaker 50 let Pobedy (right) cuts a path
through the Arctic ice for the Swedish icebreaker Oden (left)
during the 2007 LOMROG expedition.
Image courtesy of Ohio State University

The Arctic has revealed yet another mystery: Colossal mud waves that form 100-foot-wide ripples across the ocean floor, plus ancient tracks carved by half-mile-deep glaciers. Who knew?
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cracking the red king crab mystery</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/16/news-from-alaska/cracking-the-red-king-crab-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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Some of the 18 red king crabs collected by commercial fishermen
under a state permit to study what&#8217;s needed to hatch and raise large
numbers of red king crab in a hatchery. The research is being carried
out by the Alaska King Crab Research, Rehabilitation and Biology
(AKCRRAB) program, and will help policymakers decide whether to use
hatcheries to rebuild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish farm lice annihilate BC&#8217;s wild salmon</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/14/news-from-alaska/fish-farm-lice-annihilate-bcs-wild-salmon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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Pink salmon fry infected with sea lice.
Credit: Alexandra Morton

Lice infestations that originated in fish farms off British Columbia will almost certainly drive certain natural pink salmon runs to extinction within a few years, according to a new study published this week in the journal of Science.
The findings add to evidence that raising salmon and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ravenous Wolves Attack Missionary!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/13/news-from-alaska/ravenous-wolves-attack-missionary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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Modern gray wolf
Credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons

Thus read the headline of the Jan. 26, 1950 edition of the Anchorage Daily News. Longtime Alaskan man of God Everett Bachelder had been driving a team of dogs from Palmer to the Copper Basin with a load of supplies and gifts for orphans and needy families when wolves surrounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Elixir: Arctic herb may prolong life</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/08/news-from-alaska/cold-elixir-arctic-herb-may-prolong-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/08/news-from-alaska/cold-elixir-arctic-herb-may-prolong-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
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Rhodiola grows in the Arctic

They call it Golden Root, a delicate yellow flower from mountain slopes in the European and Asian Arctic that has a storied reputation for boosting mood during the long dark of Siberian winters. 
But the mysterious Rhodiola rosea may actually pack for more punch in its pharmacological fist. 
A new study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Thaw</title>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/12/05/news-from-alaska/the-big-thaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug O'Harra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate News]]></category>
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Source: NSIDC

From the prowlings of narwhals and belugas, to the plight of intrepid grass-eating pikas in St. Elias mountain refuges, to the stunning brown-death of 40 million white spruce in Kluane National Park, senior writer Ed Struzik of the Edmonton Herald takes readers on a journey across the Far North in search of climate change [...]]]></description>
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