Thin-hulled oil tanker bound for Bering Sea As you read this, the Leonid Losa – a Liberia-registered oil tanker owned by Dubai-based Sun Ship Management and loaded with a million barrels of […]
Uncharted waters
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
Best Buddies
And the hardest goodbyes Fourteen days ago, Lars was in his element, and now he is gone. It’s horribly depressing to write that line, but it wasn’t like the end couldn’t be […]
Attack animals
Dogs more dangerous than bears? Alaskans worrying about bear attacks – as many do – might be spending too much time focused on the wrong animal, according to new data coming out […]
Gone viral
A lost hiker, a camera and an internet sensation A neophyte hiker did what no neophyte hiker should do in Alaska and went off trail. He ended up lost atop barren […]
False fix?
Hatchery benefits to wild fish questioned A “global synthesis” of 51 years’ worth of peer-reviewed studies examining interactions between hatchery and wild salmon has concluded that human efforts to improve on nature […]
Killing us softly
What the machines have done So it has come to this, the American medical community resorting to threats evoking the C-word – cancer – to try to get people to walk […]
Warming bonus
200M-plus Salmon Again, but Market Chaos A warmer ocean continues to smile on Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, but the fish market is sadly another story. The 49th state these days finds […]
Know-nothing journalism
Credibility dies in a field of little mistakes This is why it is painful to read what passes for news today: “Pink salmon get their nickname from their propensity […]
Everyday danger
Lack of consequences = dangerous roads The question of the moment is simple: “Who killed Carlton Higgins?” The Anchorage Police Department (APD) knows, but it won’t say. Why? Because APD is […]
