Kivalina News

Sandbags sit stacked along the seawall in Kivalina, Alaska, in September 2007. The island town has accused a handful of mostly U.S. energy companies of contributing to global warming though greenhouse gas emissions, which it says has rendered the town uninhabitable.

The northwest Alaska village of Kivalina has declared a disaster after a wind storm swept snow into huge piles.

There will be a free presentation called "Mammoths of the Kenai Peninsula" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 31 in rooms 108-109 at the Kenai River Campus Ward building.

Last fall's mystery "goo" covering the water off Kivalina was found to be a harmless-to-animals plant fungus.