Thin-hulled oil tanker bound for Bering Sea As you read this, the Leonid Losa – a Liberia-registered oil tanker owned by Dubai-based Sun Ship Management and loaded with a million barrels of […]
Uncharted waters
An Ick(y) problem?
Hints of a new risk for Yukon Chinook A news analysis Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have come up with a new possibility as to why Bering […]
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 […]
Know it alls
How certitude is destroying media credibility After years of the mainstream media suggesting that the only Americans suspicious that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have come from a Chinese lab leak were […]
Ukraine fallout
As war rages a world away from Alaska in Ukraine, the environmental threat to the 49th state associated with that war continues to grow almost unnoticed. With Western nations boycotting Russian gas […]
Predator vs prey
A news analysis The Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is coming off another record year, and crab numbers in the Bering Sea are crashing. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
Playing favorites?
A news analysis UPDATE: The “official” standings for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race are now posted online and show Mille Porsild finishing in Nome at 13:05:00 on March 16 with Michelle Phillips […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
Slim pickings
Commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are wrapping up another banner season while around the Gulf of Alaska harvests increasingly look on target to register as the worst in more than […]
Qrill’s Iditarod
With snow falling and the weather warming along the Bering Sea Coast, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race slogged past the COVID-19 worried village of Shaktoolik on Sunday night hours off the […]
