All the pretty snow was blowing off the Front Range Chugach Mountains above Anchorage on Wednesday as the winds gusted over 80 mph, and the temperature climbed toward 40 degrees. Welcome to […]
Local warming
Unkindly killing
The state of Maine has cleared a Cooke Aquaculture salmon farm of animal abuse, according to various reports, or at least the state has decided it can’t prosecute the company because its […]
Ground zero
While some in the U.S. and much of the rest of the West fret about carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions and global warming, the Chinese – already the by-far world leaders in CO2 production – […]
Oil in the Chukchi
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 […]
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 […]
