Tug grounding on Bligh Reef

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2011/12 Alaska winter

From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger. Post a photo of you how you live through it.

Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis

Location: Point Woronzof Park Anchorage, AK, 01/24/12

RSVP: January - 2012

Location: Sheraton Anchorage, 01/14/12 The Chenega Commercial Holdings, LLC team poses for a group photo at the 2011 Stars of the Industry event at the Sheraton Anchorage. The Alaska Hotel & Lodging Association hosts this annual event to recognize and celebrate excellence in the hospitality industry.

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in January, 2012.

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Cordova snowstorm

Location: Cordova, AlaskaThis was even before the final part of the storm!

Cordova residents are tunneling out after several snow storms moved through Prince William Sound.

January Valdez snowstorm

Heavy snow pounded Valdez and Cordova on January 6, 2012, after the town received 19.2 inches Thursday from the Prince William Sound blizzard, making for a season total of more than 20 feet. Meanwhile, Nome is having its worst cold spell since 1989.

Frosty Alaskans

Alaska is in deep freeze and it's not only the trees that are covered in frost. Send us the photos of you braving the cold.

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Frosty and cold

A raven sits in a frost-coated tree in east Anchorage as the temperatures' were below zero on Tuesday, January 17, 2012.

The clear, cold weather makes for a beautiful landscape.

Coast Guard icebreaker escorts tanker through Bering Sea ice

The Russian-flagged tanker Renda steams toward Nome, Alaska, through a path in the Bering Sea ice broken up by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Jan. 6, 2012.

A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Nome that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea and was escorted by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Read more

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Japan's nuclear zone

In this April 7, 2011 photo, local police wearing white suits to protect them from radiation, search for bodies along a river inside Odaka, Japan. Weeks after authorities had searched for victims and started recovery in other tsunami-hit regions, cleanup crews hadn't yet been dispatched around the crippled reactors because of high radiation levels.

Photographer David Guttenfelder, on assignment for the National Geographic, spent much of the summer documenting earthquake and tsunami aftermath. He concentrated on the situation inside the nuclear exclusion zone.

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Russia oil

Komi is one of Russia's largest and oldest oil provinces but ruptures in aging pipelines and leaks from decommissioned oil wells make oil spills in the region routine.

December 11-12, 2011 Snowfall

Some inboxes are full along Ginami Street following an overnight storm Monday December 12, 2011 on the Anchorage Hillside.

High winds and heavy, wet snow keep snowblowers busy and force school cancellations Monday, December 12, 2011 in Anchorage.

Winter's Ice

Ice formations on mud puddles in east Anchorage on Friday, October 28, 2011.

Ice formations in Southcentral, AK.

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Warm, windy, rainy weather

Chickens look out the plastic window of a toppled coop off DeArmoun Road on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011.

A weather system brought very warm, windy and rainy weather to southcentral Alaska the first weekend of December.

December at Westchester

Skiers make their way across Westchester Lagoon Thursday afternoon December 1, 2011 in a view from the overlook at West High School.

Fresh snow and warm temperatures greet visitors to Westchester Lagoon Thursday December 1, 2011.