Alaska’s largest city ended the year 2022 tracking decades-old climate predictions that Anchorage would become more like Juneau and Juneau more like Seattle. The National Weather Service reported the year just […]
Colder warming
World wanderers
Long before Europeans began the invasion of North America with the 10th-century arrival of the Vikings in what is now Canada, it appears Alaska Natives had begun invading Asia. This new and […]
Spinning the news
Gas stoves are heating up in the news, and Boston Globe reporter Travis Andersen is bragging about it like a teenage boy: “Happy new year, Into the Red readers, “I can’t believe […]
Livin’ the life
In Alaska, 30-year-old Taryn Williams is making what she estimates to be $10,000 to $15,000 per year more than she could in the Lower 48, on track to invest $25,000 per […]
They’re everywhere
Update: This story was edited on Jan. 11, 2023 to include more information from the Scottish study. Half a world away from Alaska in the North Atlantic Ocean, the salmon with which […]
A brief reprieve
The world’s salmon farmers appear to have had their first off-year since 2016, according to the latest report from Rabobank, the Netherlands-based banking and financial services company that carefully tracks aquaculture. When […]
Killing trust
A widely reported, peer-reviewed study that concluded the Omicron variant of the Covid-19-causing, SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved through months of circulation in West Africa has been retracted, and some scientists are now […]
Mind-altering machinery
As residents of Alaska’s largest city struggle and steam their way through roads still clogged by an unusual volume of snow, maybe it is time for some serious contemplation of the country’s […]
Swallowed by Alaska
Twenty-five years ago, Sheila Nickerson, a woman who was the Alaska poet laureate when that meant something, wrote a book about those lost in Alaska titled “Disappearance: A Map; A Meditation on […]
Deadly wildlife
Some in the remote Bering Sea community of Nome, Alaska, long feared the consequences of inviting the muskox into town, and their worst fears became a reality this week. A herd of […]
