At the behest of the Alaska salmon business, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has made life hell for AquaBounty’s so-called Frankenfish but Frankenpigs appear to be wiggling their way toward the market […]
Frankenpigs coming
The takeover
Humpies invade North America’s East Coast First the pink salmon, the smallest and shortest-lived of the species, took over the Pacific Ocean, swarming with the help of Alaska ocean ranching until they […]
Ecosystem management
Are disappearing Yukon River king salmon collateral damage? Conservation biologists have been talking for decades now about something called “ecosystem management,” but it is hardly ever practiced. Politics fueled by money, good […]
Yesterday’s heroes
Today’s sled dogs little like hero of yesteryear Short of leg, a little wide of girth and fluffy, the legendary sled dog Balto looks little like the skinny, short-haired, long-legged hounds of […]
More fair!
Gender only complicates fairness in sport With most Americans – except for some “men, heterosexuals, older generations, those without a college education, Republicans, Christians, and rural residents” – now supporting the idea […]
Ukrainian fallout
Russian oil tankers taking to Northern Sea Route Coming soon to the Bering Sea near Alaska, ever more Russian oil tankers with the inherent danger of oil spills. While Alaskans talk […]
The magic solution
Calls for hatcheries to ‘save’ Yukon salmon “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and […]
Post-truth journalism
Feelings, nothing but feelings… In commenting on the dying credibility of the American mainstream media last week, Matt Taibbi, a one-time reporter for a variety of left-leaning publications and an award-winning […]
Deadly playground
Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire’s death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska’s […]
Overlooked killers
How the machines took control In science fiction stories – be they told in books, movies, or digitally – the machines are required to develop intelligence before they try to take […]
