Alaska’s snowy, frozen urban core The nine feet of snow now burying Alaska’s largest metro area should have come as but a small surprise. With a relatively strong El Niño in the […]
New Ice Age
The immigrants
An ancient tooth uncovered in Russia is unlikely to do much to bridge Alaska’s rural-urban divide, but it does appear to indicate that Alaska Natives and the Caucasians who later followed them […]
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 […]
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 […]
AK-pocalypse
Dear pussy bedwetters, Times are tough in Alaska. Global warming is over. The next Ice Age is on the horizon. The oil rush is history. You’re not going to get rich quick […]
Nature did it
News analysis The Ice Age ended almost 12,000 years ago, and yet – if a team of German and Norwegian scientists are to be believed – it continues to influence earth’s […]
Little Ice Age
Fresh off several winters of global warming, some in Alaska’s largest city were Wednesday wondering if the climate hadn’t flipped into some sort of new Ice Age. As if to put […]
