Wildlife biologists in Alaska’s urban core are beginning to worry that a combination of the COVID-19 lock down, late-lingering snows and good intentions could be brewing a perfect storm of death for […]
Collateral damage?
Old-way killer
On the trail in the bright of an LED beam on Wednesday night, it dawned that the old ways in Alaska don’t just die. They are murdered by technology. On an individual […]
Sea change
Across the remote, nearly 1 million square miles of water stretching north and south of the Arctic boundary between the U.S. and Russia, a monumental ecological shift powered by rising water temperatures […]
Into the Courts
News analysis “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer is suing the people with whom he agreed to make a musical stage play based on his well-known Alaska book. No one knows exactly […]
Gone ‘bou
More bad news for Alaskans invested in local food security. First it was weak sockeye salmon runs in the Copper and Kenai rivers making fish hard to find. Now its declining caribou […]
Alaska’s dying moose
The 49th state’s long run of what some thought might be the new normal of global warming is over. The old normal is back with snow and cold, and there are indications […]
