Alaska’s Last Great Race appeared headed toward a confrontation with America’s Great New Fear as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race moved toward the Bering Sea coast on Friday. Worried about the […]
Great new fear
Saved by the well
After the attack finally ended, after Iditarod Trail Invitational skier Greg Mills finally managed to retrieve enough warm clothes to stop his teeth from chattering and make his way down the trail […]
The snow trap
A thousand feet above Alaska’s largest city, the winds were Wednesday night building toward hurricane force for the second time in 48 hours. The National Weather Service was forecasting overnight gusts to […]
Crap
PORTLAND, Ore. – Anchorage’s mob of fat-tired cyclist ranting about those little bags of dog crap showing up alongside trails all over Alaska’s largest city, take note: It’s not just an Anchorage […]
Hot Russia
The Russians appear to have finally come clean on their climate-change policy in a whitepaper focusing on plans for adaptation “as well as the seizing of the opportunities arising from such changes.” […]
Icy north
The beginning of the end of the year 2019 – the warmest in Alaska history – drew to an end in the state’s largest city in the style of the new-normal weather […]
This sucks
Rains of near biblical proportions were falling on Southcoastal Alaska on Monday to wash away what is normally winter. Had bad was it? See the top-10 worst below. But first the news. […]
Blown away
The cliffs above the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm just east of Alaska’s largest city were coming apart on Saturday as December rains and wind swept into Southcoastal Alaska. The Anchorage […]
Home of the rich
Global warming might portend all sorts of future problems from Alaska, but so far it’s coming up nothing but roses for the Bristol Bay region of the state. The U.S. Bureau of […]
Climate refugia
This an open letter to the residents and businesses of Silicon Valley from Anchorage, Alaska, where the temperature in the Front Range Chugach Mountains today hit 50 degrees and the 49th state’s […]
