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His 48th summer on top of the world Ned Rozell This June, George Divoky will refurbish a cabin that sits on a lonely gravel island north of Alaska.

He was not planning a remodel this year.

Sometime during the winter, a polar bear tore through a plywood wall of the cabin Divoky moved 20 years ago to Cooper Island.

Cooper Island is a crescent of gravel in the Beaufort Sea, 25 miles east of Utqiaġvik, the northernmost settlement in the United States.

With a lot of help from his friends, last week Divoky patched up the trashed shelter. He is now ready for his 48th consecutive summer on Cooper Island studying a bird that has become a symbol of a warming planet.

That bird is the black guillemot, a sleek ebony sea bird that spends its entire life in the Arctic. Fifty years ago, Divoky was doing a pretrans-Alaska pipeline assessment of birds in the Beaufort Sea. The guillemots caught his eye.

Three years after that, in 1975, Divoky set up nest boxes for the birds on Cooper Island, using wood left behind from a U.S. military exercise.

With his nest boxes — which later evolved to polar-bear proof plastic camera cases — Divoky has charted the downward trajectory of a bird that depends on sea ice.

In the 1980s, 225 pairs of black guillemots nested on Cooper Island. Last year, Divoky counted 25 pairs.

“I had no idea for the first 15 years that this

birds’ August feeding time.

Parent birds now feed their chicks sculpin and other fish that are less abundant and less energy-rich than the cod.

Divoky has watched nesting success plummet due to the shrinking sea ice, just as he watched them succeed as the ice freed up Cooper Island in the early 1970s.

He has seen other changes. During his decades of spending each June through August on the cold, foggy island, Divoky did not see many polar bears until one summer day in 2002.

“I was weighing chicks Photo by Craig George. and I looked up and saw this George Divoky and his friend Matt Thomas pose in front of Divoky’s cabin on bear walking by the tent that Cooper Island after repairing polar-bear damage in April, 2022. had the gun in it,” he said. was a climate-change study,” Divoky said reHe encountered 16 polar bears that summer, cently from his home in Seattle. one of which wrecked several mountaineering Black guillemots prefer to feed their nest- tents he used as a camp. He then decided he lings arctic cod, which live in cold waters at the needed a more solid shelter. edge of sea ice. When sea ice was close to CooA friend told him of a newly built 8-by-12per Island in the summers of the 1970s, 1980s foot cabin for sale in Utqiaġvik. Local resident and 1990s, parent birds were able to bring home Barrow Brower hauled the cabin out to the rich, fatty cod. island for Divoky, who has used it ever since.

In recent years, the ice edge has been hun- He has enhanced his polar-bear protection with dreds of miles from Cooper Island during the electric fences and motion detectors.

“I’ve always felt safe there,” Divoky said.

Last week, Divoky and his friends Craig George, Geoff Carrol, John Citta and Matt Thomas — with logistical support from staffers at the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management — snowmachined with supplies and tools from Utqiaġvik to Cooper Island, a bumpy 25-mile ride.

They cleaned the mess the polar bear had left (“There was almost nothing functional that could be salvaged,”) and went to work patching the wall with new plywood.

“We were out there five hours and suddenly — boom — it was all fixed,” Divoky said.

Now back in Seattle, the energetic 76-yearold biologist is ordering a new cookstove and other necessities to stock his plywood refuge on Cooper Island.

Though he sees irony in the destruction of a cabin that bears had left unmolested for 20 years (“As the colony is collapsing, now the infrastructure collapses,”) he is compelled to return to Cooper Island and the project he started the summer after Richard Nixon resigned as U.S. president.

“If I wasn’t in love with the Arctic and that colony, I wouldn’t have gone back,” he said.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.

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Maximizing mileage Julie Cascio, UAF Cooperative Extension Service The cost of fuel has gone up making it more expensive to drive. There are, however, ways to improve your gas efficiency and lower your driving costs states AAA Automotive.

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Gas mileage efficiency tends to decrease above 50 miles per hour. According to fueleconomy.gov, for every five miles per hour that exceed 50 mph, drivers pay an equivalent of about 30 cents more for each gallon of gas. While each vehicle has its own optimal speed for fuel efficiency, speeding can result in 7% to 14% reduced fuel economy.

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Use Cruise Control (When Appropriate). According to Edmunds.com, using cruise control under appropriate conditions (avoiding use during especially hilly terrain) can improve fuel economy by up to 14%.

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Springtime brings us Earth Day! Every year on April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in the year 1970. Back then, there was no EPA, no Clean Air Act, no Clean Water Act; there were no legal or regulatory mechanisms to protect our environment.

That’s when a United States junior senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, organized a national demonstration to raise awareness about environmental issues and bring them forward onto the national agenda. Rallies took place across the country and by the end of that year, the U.S. government had created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Twenty years later, in 1990, Earth Day was an event celebrated by more than 140 countries around the globe!

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Every year, more than a billion people come together and celebrate Earth Day to help protect our planet from the damages caused by pollution, greenhouse gases, deforestation, and climate change. Spurred on by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962, which raised public awareness and concern about the inextricable links between pollution and public health, Earth Day 1970 would come to provide a voice to this emerging global consciousness, literally putting environmental concerns on the front page. Carson’s book represented a watershed moment, and through the efforts and voices of Senator Nelson and the colleague he recruited to help him, conservation-minded Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, Earth Day has gained groundswells of momentum and reached over 190 countries since its inception.

Earth Day 1970 also achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, urban dwellers and farmers, business and labor leaders. By the end of 1970, in addition to the creation of the EPA, the first Earth Day led to the passage of several first-of-their-kind environmental laws, including the National

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Environmental Education Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air Act. Two years later Congress passed the Clean Water Act; a year after that, the Endangered Species Act was passed, which was soon followed by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have prevented the extinction of hundreds of species.

Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It also prompted President Bill Clinton to award Senator Nelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest honor given to civilians in the United States — for his role as Earth Day founder.

Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by over a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes. The social and cultural environments we saw in 1970 are rising up once again — a fresh and frustrated generation of young people are refusing to settle for platitudes, instead taking to the streets by the millions to demand a new way forward, a

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The theme of Earth Day 2022 is INVEST IN OUR PLANET. Are you willing to make that investment? A wide range of events are being planned around the world to celebrate this globally meaningful and ever-growing movement. Check social media to find out how you can get involved and be part of the solution. By engaging in simple activities like picking up litter, planting native trees and perennials, turning off electronics and lights when not in use, and recycling, we’re making our world a happier, healthier place to live!

Taken directly from the website of EarthDay.org: We need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens — everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet.

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