Scientists suggest ocean water mixing could be an important factor in climate change
Mixed up ocean
Danger times
Just about this time last year, the Kenai Mountains claimed the life of 29-year-old Tyler Kloos in an avalanche, and on Thursday Chugach National Forest Service officials were warning of danger building again […]
Warm-aska
Here we go again Alaska, if weather guru Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) has it right. Get out the rain gear and the cleats for those walkways and roads […]
Future beer
Twenty-seven years ago this March, the New York Times declared the Alaska Delta barley project, the dream of the late and revered Gov. Jay Hammond and policy sidekick Bob Palmer, a giant […]
Global thermostat?
Fears of global warming have funded a huge volume of scientific investigation over the past decade, and the more that has been learned the more complicated has become the climate picture. The […]
Wobble, wobble
The Blob that was heating up the North Pacific Ocean has been pronounced dead. The polar vortex that spins the jet stream predictably west to east across the Gulf of […]
Global cooling
As scientists continue trying to sort out exactly how earthly climate works, a group studying the planet’s prehistory has implicated a solidly frozen Bering Strait as a driving force in the arrival […]
The new normal?
The hillsides climbing into the Chugach Mountains above Alaska’s largest city were bare and brown with lingering patches of green grass as Thanksgiving approached, and the only hint of the season was […]
Good new days
News analysis This might have been a slightly off-year for Alaska salmon fisheries when judged by the bounty 49th state residents have come to expect in modern times, but a historical analysis […]
Son of Blob?
Warm waters in the North Pacific Ocean have some atmospheric scientists speculating The Blob is getting the band back together, and that possibility is sparking all kinds of speculation about West Coast […]
