Alaska’s snowy, frozen urban core The nine feet of snow now burying Alaska’s largest metro area should have come as but a small surprise. With a relatively strong El Niño in the […]
New Ice Age
Near death
The disappearance of reporting What many Americans think is wrong with America’s legacy media today isn’t the biggest thing wrong with America’s legacy media today. Yes, obvious bias in news coverage – […]
Backyard fish
Grow your own wild salmon Wild and crazy legislators in Alaska – a state that banned net-pen fish farming in 1989 in part because of fears some of the fish might escape […]
Chasing phantoms
Why not make money instead? Some Alaska lawmakers are once again upset about reports of a few snowbirds who claim Alaska residency so they can come north each summer to catch loads […]
Fall of the kings
Are Alaska salmon farmers to blame? A news analysis The Seattle-area-based Wild Fish Conservancy has dropped a bomb on the Alaska commercial fishing industry with a petition to the federal government demanding […]
Why, just why?
What drives us apart Update: The Anchorage Museum says it has now paused its race-based admission policy while it considers “the broader community considerations and applicable museum guidelines and the law.” In […]
Gone processing
The price of progress? As you read this, work is continuing in Bellingham, Wash., on a $40-million, federally financed, salmon-processing barge some think could revolutionize the Alaska fishing business. By spring, the […]
Unnoticed devolution
Curse of the machines LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Almost from the moment of arrival at Heathrow Airport on the outskirts of this teeming European metropolis, you are confronted by the machines steadily […]
Tangled up in fish
Alaska’s incredibly complicated marine ecosystems Populations of Pacific Ocean perch, a species about which little is known, and sablefish are now on the rise across the Gulf of Alaska and dominant in […]
Canine road kill
Machines are our friends until…. Outrage has followed the deaths of three more Alaska sled dogs hit by a motorized vehicle on the Denali Highway, but in many ways, the tragic […]
