Yakutat (United States)

Type: City

Name: Yakutat (United States)

population: 758

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Senator Lisa Murkowski Highlights Importance of RME’s Wave Energy Project in Alaska (USA)

Posted on Apr 30th, 2013 with tags Alaska, americas, energy, Highlights, importance, Lisa, Murkowski, News by topic, project, RME, SENATOR, usa, wave.While delivering her keynote address at the Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference in Washington, ... [Published Offshore Wind - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: RME, Yakutat (United States), Lisa Murkowski, Wave Power

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

University of Hawaii

Less Rain in Hawaii

The Hawaiian Islands ecoregion includes one of the world's wettest places, the slopes of Mount Waiʻaleʻale, which average 460 in (12,000 mm) of rainfall per year. However, almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since ... [Published Environmental News Network - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Hawaiian Islands, University of Hawaii, Henry Diaz, Yakutat (United States), Climate

Quotes

"This legislation will finally deliver on the promise the federal government made to Southeast Alaska Natives in 1971. At the same time, it ensures continued public access to the lands Sealaska selects" Murkowski said

Senate Subcommittee Advances Sealaska Lands Bill [Published Sitnews - Apr 27 2013]

"For water resource and ecosystem management, and for other societal needs, we need to know whether this drying trend will continue this century" says lead investigator Oliver Elison Timm at the International Pacific Research Center, UHM

Less Rain in Hawaii [Published Environmental News Network - Apr 23 2013]