The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Warming winner
Slim pickings
Commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are wrapping up another banner season while around the Gulf of Alaska harvests increasingly look on target to register as the worst in more than […]
Fishlandia
Russia and Alaska continue to hog the harvests of North Pacific salmon, according to the latest report from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC). Though the Russian harvest is little noticed […]
Breaking free
Alaska’s North Slope oil patch was Wednesday abuzz with the news “The Beast” – or at least parts of it – had broken free and was loose on the tundra. It was […]
Maximum efficiency
One of the most contentious fisheries in the waters off the Alaska coast is now making claims to being one of the world’s climate-friendliest sources of protein. Citing research from the University […]
Phantom project
Behind the natural gas “window” to the fiscal promised land that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar, Texan hired-hand spent four years trying to sell Alaskans, it now appears there […]
Hot Russia
The Russians appear to have finally come clean on their climate-change policy in a whitepaper focusing on plans for adaptation “as well as the seizing of the opportunities arising from such changes.” […]
Infernal combustion
SOMEWHERE OVER THE NORTHWEST – From 35,000 feet above Washington state – or, God forbid, the same altitude above the U.S. East Coast or Europe or India for that matter – it […]
Local warming
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 […]
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 – […]
