The Arctic issue.

AuthorHarrington, Susan
PositionFROM THE EDITOR - Production of the natural resources - Editorial

This month we've put together another Arctic Issue, this year in March instead of February, with quite a sampling of content focusing on Arctic issues.

All over the world, and especially (and literally) all over the top of the planet, we have Arctic issues. Nowhere is this more evident than in Alaska where the very fiber of the state's earliest inhabitants' being is entrenched in more than ten thousand years of survival and unity with the Arctic--the elements of which are now changing more rapidly than at any time in the last 4.5 billion years of sedimentary elucidation--as far as we know.

It's no wonder the fierce protective nature of Alaska Natives of the state's farthest western and northern reaches is such that these peoples of the north--their corporations, subsidiaries, and joint ventures--have become intricately involved in the exploration, development, and production of the natural resources of the area, as well as in scientific Arctic research.

Who better to submerse themselves in the dialogue among the lucrative minerals extraction industries, including the off and on again emergence of offshore oil and gas development, than the people with the most enduring history...

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