Ravenna Koenig
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A ranch in Fairbanks, Alaska, offers yoga classes with reindeer. An owner says the animals are particularly well-suited to it because they are twisty creatures.
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The Trump administration is holding public hearings on its push to drill oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Critics say the process is being rushed and downplays environmental risks.
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The mid-winter sunrise on the Arctic Coast is a sweet sign of hope in the town of Utqiaġvik.
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Climate change is so dramatic in northern Alaska that the effects on hunting and erosion are very real to people who've lived their whole lives there.
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Development of the first oil production facility in federal Arctic waters will take longer than planned. That's because warming temperatures are melting the sea ice needed to build it.
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Spring thaw brings the chance to pick up trash hiding under the snow--and it's also time to prepare for the "state bird." (The mosquito.)
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A group of NOLA music lovers has created "A Closer Walk," an interactive map of landmarks like the birthplace of jazz, a recording studio-turned-laundromat and the home of a legendary cornetist.
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When Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a high school junior, her family was sent to a Japanese internment camp. Now, she was finally able to participate in her hometown's high school graduation.
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On her eponymous debut album as Bedouine, folk musician Azniv Korkejian explores her itinerant, transnational upbringing and the war in Syria, where she was born.
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Jason Haaheim was a senior scientist at a nanotech company before deciding he wanted to play in a professional orchestra. He's now principal timpanist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.