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• Cleanup continues after Prudhoe Bay pipeline spill
  (Mary Pemberton/Anchorage Daily News, 24 December 2009) -- Crews on Wednesday were continuing to remove snow contaminated with oil from an area around a well house where a pipe broke in the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Tom DeRuyter, the state's on-scene spill coordinator, said the area around the well house is misted with oil. He said 72 cubic yards of contaminated snow -- most of it from the well house's gravel pad -- have been removed, but there is more to go. The spill was discovered Monday morning by a BP oil field operator doing a routine inspection. The break in the 6-inch line occurred where the production line left the well house. The cause of the break is not yet known, DeRuyter said. "The case is going to be under investigation as to why the line parted," he said. BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said the well line broke at a weld and released an estimated 3 gallons of oil and 131 gallons of water. The estimation was reached by considering how much oil and water the pipe normally carried and how quickly the automatic shut-off valve worked, he said.
• With Bethel wet, officers from nearby villages say crime is up
  (Alex Demarban/The Arctic Sounder, 23 December 2009) -- Village police in communities around Bethel say alcohol-fueled crimes are on the rise following Bethel's recent decision to go wet. They're working overtime to keep up with the increase in alcohol-related assaults, drunken driving and public inebriation cases, said Alvin Jimmie, coordinator for Village Public Safety Officers in the Bethel region. Somebody seems to be ordering large amounts of alcohol and selling it in the dry villages, said Jimmie, who oversees officers in about twenty villages. It started happening when Bethel voters changed the law, he said. Lt. Craig Macdonald, head of the Alaska State Trooper Post in Bethel, said the troopers are looking into the reports. It's too early to know if the new law in Bethel led to increased crime, he said. More crime could also be related to people cashing their $1,300 Permanent Fund Dividend checks in October and November, he said. Alcohol-related crimes traditionally increase when the annual state checks arrive. "There are a lot of variables," he said. Roman Daniel, a village officer in Nunapitchuk, a dry village of 540 an hour's snowmachine ride from Bethel, said alcohol-related assaults in his villages and nearby Kasigluk have increased noticeably the past month. "Everybody that couldn't get alcohol before has it," said Daniel. "I mean, it's everywhere."
  
• Costly count: Brown bear census worth the trouble?
  (Jenny Neyman/The Redoubt Reporter, 23 December 2009) -- At 800 or more pounds, with jaws that can snap a moose leg and claws able to slice skin with a mere graze, brown bears inevitably command attention, especially when there’s one rummaging through neighborhood garbage, busting into a chicken coop or, worst of all, attacking a person. On the Kenai Peninsula, attention to brown bears is growing along with interactions. Brown bear sightings are up, the frequency of bear maulings has risen, and the number of animals shot in defense of life and property has increased in recent years. ... Seeing more brown bears and having more run-ins with them leads to a perception that the bear population is increasing, as well. ... But an increase in bear interactions doesn’t necessarily mean there are more bears. It may just mean there are more bears coming in contact with humans. ... On the other hand, there may well be more bears. Fish and Game biologists have estimated the peninsula population of brown bears at 250 to 300. Jeff Selinger, area wildlife biologist with Fish and Game, has said he’s seen indications that the bear population has increased over the last decade. But it’s a long leap to go from perceptions and indications to a higher, healthy population figure that warrants expanded hunting opportunities, especially with Fish and Game’s conservative approach to game management. When human-brown bear interactions spike on the Kenai, calls for more hunting opportunities rise, and Selinger is left to wade into those debates with the same unsatisfying response — no one knows how many brown bears there are. ... That may be about to change.
• Iceland is world’s 16th largest fishing nation
   (Iceland Review, 23 December 2009) -- Iceland was the world’s 16th largest fishing nation in 2007 with a catch of 1.4 million tons, according to new statistics from the Food and Agriculture Association (FAO), published by Statistics Iceland. In 2007, the world’s total fish catch was almost 90 million tons. The top five fishing nations are China (14.7 million tons), Peru (7.2 million tons), Indonesia (4.9 million tons), the US (4.8 million tons) and Japan (4.2 million tons), Fiskifréttir, a Vidskiptabladid supplement, reports. Twenty states caught more than 1 million tons of fish in 2007. Their combined catch was 68 million, which is 75 percent of the world catch. Norway was the only European state with a larger catch than Iceland, placing 11th with a catch of 2.4 million tons. The world catch in 2007 increased by 201,000 tons from 2006.
• DNA shifts timeline for mammoths' exit
  (Henry Fountain/Observatory, New York Times, 21 December 2009) -- Thousands of years ago in northwestern North America, large animal species, among them the woolly mammoth and the horse, became extinct. Among the proposed explanations for this is one known as the blitzkrieg hypothesis—that humans entering the region rapidly wiped the animals out through overhunting. The validity of that explanation, and others, depends in parts on the timing of the extinctions. How many thousands of years ago did the animals disappear? Until now, the answer to that question has been 13,000 to 15,000 years ago. But those dates come from the youngest reliably dated fossils that have been found, and who is to say there aren’t even younger fossils out there? A new study has come up with a far different answer, using a far different technique. Rather than dating actual fossils, the researchers analyzed DNA found in permanently frozen sediments at a site on the Yukon River in central Alaska. As they report in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they found evidence that mammoths and horses were still around at least until 10,500 years ago, long after humans arrived. Earlier studies had shown that DNA from animals’ waste, skin cells and hair could be preserved in permanently frozen sediments. James Haile and Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues analyzed samples taken from the frozen soil at various depths, corresponding to about 8,000 to 11,000 years ago. Since humans were known to arrive in the region at least 14,000 years ago, the finding casts doubt on the blitzkrieg hypothesis. Hunting may have contributed to the decline of these animals, the researchers write, but it “did not deliver the deathblow.”
• Cargo ship adrift south of Adak in heavy seas
  (Rosemary Shinohara/Anchorage Daily News, 20 December 2009) -- A 740-foot cargo ship was disabled and floating adrift in high winds about 540 miles southwest of Adak on Sunday. The ship, the APJ Suryavir, registered in India, was battling 30-foot seas and winds close to 60 mph during part of the day, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. There were 28 people on board. The crew planned to abandon ship and move to a rescue ship that was due to arrive at the scene late Sunday night, said Petty Officer Walter Shinn. The ship was drifting to the east, away from the Aleutian Islands. Another cargo ship, the Maersk Altair, was in the vicinity and answered a Coast Guard call for help. But it had to slow down due to the weather and wasn't expected to reach the APJ Suryavir until the middle of the night. The APJ Suryavir was heading empty from China to the Columbia River in Oregon when the main engine failed and would not restart. The ship had sea water ballast in its tanks to add weight and stability but was still not stable enough for the harsh conditions, said Shinn. The Coast Guard sent a C-130 aircraft from Kodiak to check out the scene. That plane dropped a buoy to collect information on the currents and wind conditions. A second C-130 was to fly out to check on the APJ Suryavir early today, said Shinn. A Coast Guard cutter docked at Dutch Harbor also set out to help but won't get to the site for four days. The ship was not taking on water and has life rafts, survival suits and an emergency locator beacon, Coast Guard officials said. The ship is reported to have a 30-day supply of provisions.
  
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