A trio of North America’s top salmon scientists has underlined their belief a 2020 fishery collapse in the Pacific Ocean was sparked by a deadly combination of warm water and over-abundance of […]
Back to the future?
Out near the Bering Sea coast, the regional hub of Bethel, Alaska, just recorded its coldest November in 80 years and those to the east might want to take note. Why? First […]
Losing the battle
The Alaska commercial salmon season is long over and fading fast from memory, but the salmon business is still rolling along in Norway with record sales. The Norwegian Seafood Council started the […]
The Oo threat
The big, global news over the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. should have come as a surprise to no one. SARS-CoV-2 spun off a new, even-more infectious variant – this one named […]
Dragging you down
If a paper published last week in the open-access journal of the American Medical Association is to be believed, social media really can drive you crazy. Mental illness is nothing to […]
Careful out there
Alaska’s now popular Knik Glacier has bagged its first misguided adventurer of the winter season. Social media was this week lighting up with photos of a late-model Ford Ranger pickup truck that […]
Colder than…
With the snow squeaky cold and the temperature pushing toward 20 degrees below zero on the Tour of Anchorage Trail late Sunday night, the “new normal” with which some in Alaska’s largest […]
Misinformation madness
Enough with the ranting about “misinformation.” The country is getting close to “Red Scare” territory, and worse than that, the ranting does not work. DOES NOT WORK! Ranting about misinformation is […]
Fear not
If worrying about the global pandemic has left you clinically depressed, there may now be good news. A study in the Lancet, a respected British medical journal, is reporting that fluvoxamine, a […]
The dark side
Backed by the conservative Pacific Legal Defense Foundation, three Homer fishermen have gone to court to try to overturn the pending closure of commercial salmon netting in the federal waters of Cook […]
