When Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and other oil companies abandoned plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea three years ago, environmentalists took the news as a victory for the […]
Oil in the Chukchi
Climate newsganda
The Guardian – the largest newspaper website in the United Kingdom – has gone all-in on climate change as the philosophical restructuring of traditional media continues. Climate change is so important, the […]
The failed ban
The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. It would seem an appropriate time […]
Let it snow
When the snow falls early and sticks in Siberia, the polar vortex shudders, and the effects are felt across the northern hemisphere. Or so says MIT’s Judah Cohen at Atmospheric and Environmental […]
Forgotten dangers
While much of the world worries about the creeping consequences of global warming, a group of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Federation of American Scientists and a collection […]
Doomsday
Despite The Nation magazine this month suggesting Alaska salmon in peril, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says consumers need not worry about eating wild-caught fish from the 49th state. Salmon […]
Car problems
SEATTLE – When stuck in the often nightmarish, 2019 traffic of this Pacific Northwest city, it is hard to avoid wondering if U.S. federal highway vehicle emission standards didn’t actually help move […]
One easy fix
The climate kids are right. Adults aren’t providing very good role models in the war against global warming. Anchorage and all of Alaska could take the lead here to show them by […]
Burn, burn, burn
A long way from a record, the Alaska fire season is winding down at last with the long-term consequences far from clear. The good news is no one died, although a number […]
Alaska’s bounty
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the state’s 60-year history – Alaska is on the cusp of posting another salmon harvest at or above the […]
