After more than 250 years of glacial retreat in Alaska, the race continues between a rebounding landscape and the rising sea of a warmer world. And the winner is? Land, according to […]
Falling sea levels
Save the planet
So you really want to do something to help slow global warming? Well, here’s something easy: Ditch your social media and your internet-connected toys and appliances. All of it and all […]
Winter bites back
UPDATED 12/27/2019:The National Weather Service is now reporting a minus-65 temperature reported this morning from near the Tanana River in the center of the state “is the coldest official temperature in Alaska […]
Peace on earth
Almost as if cued by Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby, temperatures plummetted and snow arrived on Christmas Eve in Alaska’s largest city to ensure a very White Christmas. The same was true […]
Economic divisions
No one involved with the split between the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) and Alaska’s most profitable company – Arctic Slope Regional Corp. (ASRC) – is publicly saying much of anything of […]
All clear!
The wolverine that terrorized Alaska’s largest city appears to have disappeared and nary a moose has been known to have died. A month ago, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued […]
Impeachment gauge
The results are in, and they show what Americans really care about: the head-bashing business of professional football. “Sunday Night Football (on NBC) delivered 15.78 million viewers in the fast nationals […]
Bright side
After an unusually warm fall, Alaska’s urban core is heading into the winter season looking wholly unseasonable, but there could be a Christmas bonus for homeowners hidden in the picture. National Weather […]
Arctic fish boom
Apparently fueled by a warming Bering Sea, the 2019 salmon boom in Northwest Alaska stretched far to the east along the Arctic Coast. Canadian officials are reporting they saw unprecedented numbers of salmon […]
Infernal combustion
SOMEWHERE OVER THE NORTHWEST – From 35,000 feet above Washington state – or, God forbid, the same altitude above the U.S. East Coast or Europe or India for that matter – it […]
