After the great Pacific salmon crash of 2020 and early fears about the Alaska salmon run of 2021, the 49th state looks to be easing into another season of Piscean […]
They’re back
Cold-hot science
The latest climate modeling is raising big questions about the apparently Arctic-driven “new normal” weather that only a year ago and for years before looked to be transforming Anchorage into a […]
A blue future
News analysis The “window” that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar Texas sidekick spent years suggesting had opened for an Alaska natural gas pipeline never did, and now it’s […]
Snow fun season
For Gulf Coast Alaska, March stormed in like, well, maybe not quite a lion but at least a lynx, the feline evolved for the northland. The snow flew and temperatures dropped. Along […]
Winning losers
The global pandemic is causing problems for salmon farmers, but that is far from good news for Alaska commercial fishermen, processors or the few 49th state communities with economies still heavily dependent […]
Going polar
Tens of thousands of feet above the Arctic, the earth’s stratosphere has gone nuts, and the results are being widely felt. Heavy snows buried the Midwest and Great Lakes regions over the […]
Headin’ south
The exodus from Alaska continues; the long-running recession lingers; and Anchorage witnessed the biggest growth in new residential construction in five years. Go figure. State Labor Department economist Neal Fried said he doesn’t […]
Ice age trigger?
First it was Russian scientists suggesting a ripple in the earth’s crust driven by massive earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska could trigger methane releases to accelerate global warming in […]
Bad wind rising
With new, loose snow more than a foot deep in the mountains that shade Anchorage and hurricane-force winds in the forecast for Monday evening, Alaska’s largest city appeared poised to be clobbered […]
Big, four-headed volcano
With one natural phenomenon already ravaging the globe in the form of the newly evolved SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientists are now warning they might have found the potential for another natural disaster far […]
