Alaska Hurricane National 
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NOVEMBER 15, 2013
A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. In August of 2005, she had barely begun getting things in order when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck. They came from Alaska, from ad agencies on Madison Avenue, from everywhere. It was not an easy road for Nancy.
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The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and Russia will be especially vulnerable. This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office.
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Mass layoffs struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) late last week , throwing into jeopardy the core mission of the agency tasked with observing the skies and seas nationwideand a key piece of the federal disaster preparedness apparatus. In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go. Photo: Helen H.
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Recovery efforts for three victims of a large avalanche near Anchorage , Alaska, were ongoing Thursday, two days after the accident in mountains where forecasters had warned it would be easy to trigger a slide that day because of a weak layer in the deep snow. NOAA has about 13,000 employees.
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