Twas the day after Christmas, and across all the lands; the omicron variant was stalking holiday bands. The gifting all over, the eating well done; The good Dr. Fauci warned of the […]
The nightmare after Xmas
New salmon homelands
As the global climate warms, salmon in Canada and the Pacific Northwest might be facing new barriers in the never-ending struggle to survive, but a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature Communication earlier […]
Buffaloed
Leave it Alaska Rep. Don Young, the congressman for all Alaska, to convince his colleagues in the House of Representatives to rewrite history. Young is the sponsor of the House-approved “Indian Buffalo […]
The disrupters?
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 […]
