If Alaska was Switzerland, the natural equivalent of a giant, rechargeable battery able to provide renewable power for the state’s largest city forever would likely be up and running in the Chugach Mountains […]
The Eklutna Battery
A tale of trouble
Never before has the 49th state’s biggest sporting stumbled toward its early March start surrounded by so much controversy and disarray. With CBS Sports nationally headlining that “Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog […]
Unbroken trail
Coloradoan fat-tire cyclist Neil Beltchenko and others were out in what used to be the Farewell Burn to the north of Alaska Range on Tuesday being reminded of one thing that […]
Norway not
Commentary Norway’s version of the Alaska Permanent Fund hit the $1 trillion mark this week. That’s $1,000 billion, or about 16 times the $61.2 billion the state of Alaska is […]
Alaska’s losing battle
News analysis Bristol Bay – Alaska’s highest profile salmon fishery – had a banner year, and yet everywhere in the global market Alaska salmon fisheries look to be in more and more […]
Cooler warming?
Giant larvaceans and a strange interaction between high-north methane and carbon dioxide are now underlining the complexities of trying to predict climate change. “Good news about climate change is especially […]
False narratives
Scientists Fredrik Jutfelt and Josefin Sundin, discovered the hard way the power of the false narrative. False narratives once established have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own. […]
The recession arrives
No one has as yet declared the state of Alaska officially on the list of governments fighting recessions, and it is unlikely anyone will. But a top state economist Tuesday admitted the […]
