Alaska commercial fisheries look to be global-warming losers, according to a new study by a group of U.S. scientists, but the study is missing one vital component: Salmon.
Fishery meltdown
Arctic killers
A warmer North Pacific Ocean might be partly to blame for king-salmon-eating killer whales struggling in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest, but climate changes appear to be opening rich, new […]
Poor rich woman?
The draft of a once-proposed loan agreement between an Alaska Native corporation and Alice Rogoff has shed new light on the 2017 implosion of the 49th state’s largest newspaper. Despite […]
It’s the economy
Economists are forecasting Alaska could finally break out of its recession next year or may already have done so, but that doesn’t mean the economic future for the 49th state looks all that […]
AK hard men
Neither fans nor ceremony greeted Jay Cable and Tom Moran when they crossed the finish line of Alaska’s most formidable race earlier this month. There was only the deep satisfaction of mission […]
Wilderness lost
Alaska might be one of the last bastions of North American terrestrial wilderness, but the waters that wash up against its coasts are another story. A global search for marine wilderness found […]
Beavers invade
The streams and rivers of Arctic Alaska are slowly but steadily being transformed by a northward advance of beavers into the shrub lands of the tundra, according to a new study by […]
Nature did it
News analysis The Ice Age ended almost 12,000 years ago, and yet – if a team of German and Norwegian scientists are to be believed – it continues to influence earth’s […]
Idiocracy
Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Arctic oil ‘boued
Once more there is talk of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and once more there is worry of a threat to the Porcupine caribou herd which calves in […]
