Climate change began poisoning the people of the Norwegian Arctic with dangerous chemicals some 3,800 to 6,300 years ago scientists have concluded after digging around in the garbage pits of that country’s […]
Safely unknown
Stormy seas
The problems for Alaska’s commercial fishing industry – once the state’s largest employer but now second to tourism – are growing by the day. Seafood News today reported the lastest survey by […]
Real Alaska
Even in these global warming days, Alaska can still make residents of the 49th state shiver in their socks. Coming off the warmest year in state history, January 2020 slapped the residents […]
Maximum efficiency
One of the most contentious fisheries in the waters off the Alaska coast is now making claims to being one of the world’s climate-friendliest sources of protein. Citing research from the University […]
Close call
Updated Jan. 29, 2020: The Jeep has been freed. A small army of fellow four-wheel-drive adventurers helped pull it from the ice on Tuesday. Colby Davis shot an excellent video is […]
‘Seward’s Folly’ redux
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, the state’s largest city appears headed for the fifth or sixth coldest January in the local climate record. As of Wednesday, the average monthly […]
Danger heating up
As the global climate continues to warm, it is likely to lure people to their deaths, according to scientists from Imperial College London and Harvard. After examining injury deaths in the contiguous […]
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 […]
Feeding the bears
Oregon State University researchers working in Alaska’s Bristol Bay have now documented what has been obvious to many bear biologists for a long time: small salmon streams are important to big bruins. […]
