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 […]
Beavers invade
Ecosystem chaos
With Canadian and Pacific Northwest scientists readying a claim to yet more evidence of hatchery pink salmon overgrazing the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean to the detriment of Chinook and other […]
Winter lives on
Little could Carlos Lozano know that the uncomfortable process of getting an artificial knee this April might save him a big, snowy headache. Lozano is the heart and soul of the Alaska […]
Tourism’s CO2side
All that trendy ecotourism, as it turns out, might not be so eco, but then it’s only a small part of the climate problem caused by well-to-do residents of first-world countries […]
New climate old
La Nina – the cold-shouldered sister of El Nino – is reported to be dying in the central Pacific Ocean, but you sure couldn’t tell it in Alaska’s urban core on Sunday […]
Missing the game
Fourteen oil-and-gas producing states have joined Indiana in supporting the country’s major oil companies in their effort to fend off a climate change litigation begun by the cities of San Fransisco and […]
Techno-cold risks
Two feet and a hand gone to frostbite, 61-year-old Italian Roberto Zanda can only wish he had been endurance racing in the safety of Alaska’s Iditarod warmth this year instead of […]
Go play
With less than five weeks to go until the first day of spring, winter has finally arrived on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, though the wilderness playground south of the state’s largest city remains […]
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 […]
Queen of the Arctic
With Alice Rogoff’s dream of an Alaska media empire dead and a federal Bankruptcy Court trustee sniffing her back trail to find the hole down which tens of millions of dollars disappeared […]
