More bad news for Alaska’s third-largest industry is coming out of Europe. Dutch-based banking and financial powerhouse Rabobank, a global leader in food and agriculture financing, says the aquaculture business has grown by […]
Bad to worse
Sun-tember
As Alaska’s urban core speeds toward the end of an unusually warm and dry September, the Centers for Environmental Information are suggesting there is more of the same to come. “The temperature […]
Bye, bye Sarah
Everyone in Alaska knew this was coming sooner or later didn’t they? Half-term former Gov. Sarah Palin has told a British newspaper she’s going to do the Gold Rush thing and take […]
Gone fish
As the Alaska summer winds to a close, a hunt is on for the missing sockeye salmon of the 49th state’s fabled Copper River. It might be the perfect ending to the […]
Bear spray fail?
The inevitable has happened in Wyoming where a hunting guide who doused an attacking grizzly bear with pepper spray is dead. It is impossible, however, to say definitively that the bear spray […]
Fees for Chinese
Looking to join the Alaska fatbike craze? Buy quick. A billion dollars worth of bikes and bike components are the latest of made-in-China goods to be hit by Trump tariffs, and some […]
Suffering lettuce?
An international team of scientists has discovered that plants have feelings, too. When insects nibble on the leaf of a rockcress plant, the group led by Masatsugu Toyot of Japan’s Saitama University […]
State of stagnation
Famous as the state of economic boom and bust, Alaska appears to have reached something of a new, no-growth stability as its population ages in place, and its economy begins to diversify […]
“The Blab”-ber
News analysis Alaska is going to end the 2018 salmon season with a catch a little over half that of last year despite another phenomenal return of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. But […]
Ever larger us
If you are sitting at your computer reading this, you might be doing as much to damage your health as if you’d just lit a cigarette. But you probably already knew that. […]
