Showing posts with label #Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Alaska. Show all posts
Sunday, October 3, 2021

Fat Bear Week: Alaska to choose most portly and hibernation-prepared bear

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Voting is underway at Katmai National Park and Preserve of bears who have feasted on salmon running through the Brooks River America may ...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Delta variant surge pushes Alaska’s sparse health care infrastructure to the brink

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In the past two weeks, Alaska’s case count increased by 72 percent, the highest in the nation, as it tops all-time state case and death re...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Judge throws out Trump-era approvals for Alaska oil project

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Ruling calls federal reports flawed and says plan didn’t do enough to prevent further harm to polar bears and their habitat. Source: htt...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Three volcanoes are erupting at the same time in Alaska

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Three volcanoes in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands are erupting at the same time, with at least two spewing low levels of ash and steam. Sourc...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Tsunami warnings issued after magnitude 8.2 earthquake hits off Alaska

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“The biggest threat would be any potential tsunami risk,” a USGS geophysicist told NBC News. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Trouble in Alaska? Massive oil pipeline is threatened by thawing permafrost

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The slope of permafrost where an 810-foot section of the pipeline is secured has started to shift as it thaws, causing braces holding up t...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Biden suspends oil-drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

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Republicans and the energy industry have long sought to open the remote area, as Democrats, environmental groups and some Alaska tribes ha...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Biden administration backs Trump-era Alaska oil drilling plans

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The Biden administration on Wednesday defended in the U.S. District Court for Alaska a massive ConocoPhillips oil and gas project approved...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

‘Second bite is one that broke the bones’: Alaska man describes bear mauling

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Allen Minish was surveying land when he locked eyes with a brown bear in an encounter that left him with a crushed jaw and deep cuts Warn...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

A Zombie-Fire Outbreak May Be Growing in Alaska and Canada

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“Overwintering” fires smolder under the snow, reigniting vegetation in the spring. New research shows the zombies may proliferate in a war...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Ravens stealing food from Anchorage Costco shoppers

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The “ravens of Anchorage” sounds like a viking jazz trio and, as it turns out, are as equally smooth as the musical ensemble name intimates...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

Sen. Barrasso backs Murkowski after Trump targets her

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Sen. John Barrasso said Sunday he’d back Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for reelection, breaking with former President Donald Trump not long af...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Texas is Colder Than Alaska Right Now

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In a turn of events that will surprise exactly no one at this point, a large swath of the United States is currently experiencing an extrem...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Judge allows contested Arctic oil lease sale to go ahead

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A federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid to thwart the Interior Department’s plan to sell oil drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wi...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Last-minute White House decision opens more Arctic land to oil leasing

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Donald Trump’s administration announced on Monday that it has made final its plan to open up vast areas of once-protected Arctic Alaska te...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Alaska May Be Hiding a Huge Volcanic System

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As if we needed more upsetting right news right now, geologists have reason to suspect that a cluster of Alaskan islands is actually part o...
Monday, November 16, 2020

Passenger jet damaged after crashing into brown bear on runway in Southeast Alaska

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A cub miraculously survived the accident that killed one adult bear Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/passenger-p...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Alaska’s Coastal Permafrost Is More Vulnerable Than We Thought

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Scientists have long assumed that a thick, solid mass of permafrost underpins all of Alaska like the sturdy foundation of a house, stretchi...
Monday, October 19, 2020

7.5 magnitude earthquake near Alaska triggers tsunami warning

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The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coasts from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska, to Unimak Pass, Alaska. Sour...

Anchorage chooses 1st woman, openly gay acting mayor

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Austin Quinn-Davidson will serve as acting mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, after the outgoing mayor resigned over an “inappropriate” relations...