First it was Russian scientists suggesting a ripple in the earth’s crust driven by massive earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska could trigger methane releases to accelerate global warming in […]
Ice age trigger?
Hope’s importance
The powerful and yet subtle ways in which work influences lives is writ large in the new look some economists are taking at the dip in U.S. life expectancy. University of California, […]
Good intentions bad
Nine years ago in the name of safety, the National Park Service went to a permit system that capped the number of day hikers and backpackers on the cable-protected trail that forms […]
Salmon ceasefire
Alaska’s salmon farmers and their critics have come to an agreement that the almost 2 billion hatchery fish the 49th state dumps in the Pacific Ocean each year at warrant an annual […]
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 […]
Wild values
As this is written, the author is sitting at a keyboard pretty well pounded by Alaska. Three and half hours of steady paddling from the seat of a packraft after a four-and-half-hour, […]
Credit due
As a role model, President Donald Trump might now rank the most successful man ever to occupy the White House. More and more Americans become like him every day, and if one […]
Organic dangers
Fashionable organic food may be contaminating consumers with microplastics due to microplastic-filled compost polluting organic farms, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances. German scientists studying organic fertilizer found it contained […]
Get ready
Geophysicists from the Universities of Colorado and Montana are warning that 2018 could be a rockin’ and rollin’ year for major earthquakes due to a slowing of the Earth’s rotation, and Alaska […]
Kenai crisis
Heavy with sand and silt, Alaska’s Copper River resembles nothing so much as a slurry pipeline as it carries to sea the outwash of dozens of glaciers in the Wrangell/St. Elias Mountains […]
