ExxonMobil’s departure as a sponsor of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this week might have come as a surprise to some fans of the self-identified Last Great Race, but it […]
PR reordered
Confusion
One of President Joe Biden’s first acts in office on Wednesday was to order masks on “all persons in federal buildings or on federal lands.” Federal officials in Alaska were Thursday […]
Knuckleball weather
Siberia was colder than hell to start the week. Rain was falling in Anchorage, heavily at times, on Monday. And Judah Cohen, the guru of the polar vortex, says it all makes […]
Reload & attack
Angry that the Alaska Board of Fisheries no longer follows the dictates of Cook Inlet commercial fishermen and that federal authorities have refused to seize control of the management Inlet salmon, the […]
Losing salmon
The North Pacific Ocean is at this time home to more salmon than at any time in recorded history, and the residents of Seattle are worrying that their local sockeye, which once numbered […]
Ice age trigger?
First it was Russian scientists suggesting a ripple in the earth’s crust driven by massive earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska could trigger methane releases to accelerate global warming in […]
Quaking hot
A pair of Russian scientists have come up with a novel theory to explain a couple of odd spikes in rising Arctic temperatures over the course of the last 110 years: […]
The fatty fad
The year 2020 began with one of many bike publications suggesting the market for fat bikes – possibly the only international fad rooted and fostered in Alaska – is on the verge […]
Big, four-headed volcano
With one natural phenomenon already ravaging the globe in the form of the newly evolved SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientists are now warning they might have found the potential for another natural disaster far […]
Big losers
Unhappy with how the Alaska Board of Fisheries was managing the waters that lap at the doorstep of Alaska’s urban core, the United Cook Inlet Drift Association (UCIDA) – the powerful commercial […]
